or so

idiom

used to say that a number, amount, etc., is not exact
We plan to stay a week or so.
Tickets cost $20 or so.

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As the chart here shows, the rate environment (and the rate-expectation environment) has been volatile over the past year or so. Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025 His obsession is with the innumerable recordings that have been issued in the past seventy-five years or so—a glorious panoply of changing musical taste that reflects the interplay of art and commerce in the most productive and wasteful culture the world has ever known. David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025 Those guards hanging around the entrance to the nest site will attack with much less provocation, often flying out to sting someone who happens to walk within 10 feet or so. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 July 2025 During his last five years or so, my husband and I had a friendship with a female neighbor. R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 19 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for or so

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“Or so.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/or%20so. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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