more like
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: close to : about, approximately
I thought it would only take two or three minutes, but it ended up taking more like half an hour.
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In Little Bear Ridge Road, Metcalf racks up the hits with ease, though the production feels more like watching home run derby than a full game.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
But despite the production’s accomplished period physical trappings, there’s an air of very 21st-century thinking here — particularly in depictions of gender-blur and adult same-sex love within the Arab world — that feels more like wish-fulfillment than the film is prepared to acknowledge.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
What Cunningham appears to be describing—players refusing to play—sounds a lot more like a strike than a lockout.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
That same song had a special — well, more like chilling — role in Welcome to Derry.
—Alexis Mikulski Ruiz, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
But despite the production’s accomplished period physical trappings, there’s an air of very 21st-century thinking here — particularly in depictions of gender-blur and adult same-sex love within the Arab world — that feels more like wish-fulfillment than the film is prepared to acknowledge.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
What Cunningham appears to be describing—players refusing to play—sounds a lot more like a strike than a lockout.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
That same song had a special — well, more like chilling — role in Welcome to Derry.
—Alexis Mikulski Ruiz, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
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