more or less
adverb
1
: to a varying or undetermined extent or degree : somewhat
they were more or less willing to help
2
: with small variations : approximately
contains 16 acres more or less
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Examples of more or less in a Sentence
the lot is 16 acres more or less
most couples in the survey said that they were more or less happy in their marriage
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While Tranmere has a fight this season to retain its Football League status, Tacopina would be taking on a club that more or less breaks even.
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Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Furthermore, essentially every big company seems to be working from the same recipe, making bigger and bigger language models, but all winding up in more or less the same place, which is models that are about as good as GPT-4, but not a whole lot better.
—Gary Marcus, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
Musk said more or less the same thing in the Q2 call.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Only Embiid's passing looks to be more or less in line with his career output.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Furthermore, essentially every big company seems to be working from the same recipe, making bigger and bigger language models, but all winding up in more or less the same place, which is models that are about as good as GPT-4, but not a whole lot better.
—Gary Marcus, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
Musk said more or less the same thing in the Q2 call.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Only Embiid's passing looks to be more or less in line with his career output.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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“More or less.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20or%20less. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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