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Recent Examples of more or less While this show is not a retrospective, Kruger is more or less at its center. — Amy Verner, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026 And, unlike New York, there’s very little in the way of height competition, so the vistas are more or less unobstructed. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026 Some sources may have more or less information than others, depending on how each source was published or created and what is known about it. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2026 The same products, more or less, from two far more powerful companies. — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for more or less
Recent Examples of Synonyms for more or less
Adverb
  • Defense lawyer Lawrence Obonyo, who represents Mackenzie and almost all of the others convicted, said he had been instructed to appeal.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • From a dozen seats to 20,000 sign-ups Growth has come almost entirely from social media.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • My first experiments with my at-home cream top were pretty simple.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Watching a sports car drive upside down and then launch itself into the air was pretty incredible.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • The chart shared by NASA showed Orion docking with the Blue Moon lander in an elliptical lunar orbit, approximately 8,500 km above the Moon’s surface.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Even as the sense of a hazy disturbance in the force lingers, Burkholder’s approximately three-minute statement at least demystified some of the curious situation.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Yet the 103-win Milwaukee Brewers and 98-win Tampa Bay Rays were the best teams in their respective leagues practically all season.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, were practically inseparable in their final years.
    — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • But now, as everything online morphs into algorithmic social media, the case for concern has crystallized into something quite specific.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Few sports have embraced the pursuit of new audiences quite like F1, the motorsport league acquired by Liberty Media nearly a decade ago.
    — Sam Jacobs, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • In Lyon, France's third-largest city where about 20,000 protesters joined the march, a fire broke out inside a tourist office.
    — SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The incident occurred along the 3700 block of Gardenia Avenue, where police received a call about two shots being fired in a nearby residence, Long Beach Police said in a statement.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • SpaceX shares jumped nearly 8% on Wednesday, their best single-session performance since August.
    — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In a Channel 12 survey of first-time Jewish voters, nearly three-quarters identified as right-wing or center-right.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • As the world’s largest communications satellite network, Starlink can typically support high-speed Internet and data streams for any user or vehicle equipped with a relatively compact Starlink terminal.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • To find out which explanation fits, Boschini and his colleagues used a laser to temporarily disrupt superconductivity in a copper-oxide crystal while the material remained relatively cold.
    — Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

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“More or less.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/more%20or%20less. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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