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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Most Popular Most Popular Florida troopers will work with Homeland Security to help deport immigrants, DeSantis announces I-4 to look more like scene from ‘The Jetsons’? —

Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025 On The Way Home, doesn’t Alice’s boyfriend Noah look more like her dad Brady than the actor who actually plays Young Brady? 5 | Any other theater nerds get Harry Potter and the Cursed Child vibes from Doechii’s Grammys performance? —

Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025 But maybe the most titillating moment of all is the final tennis set — a wordless showdown that feels more like an emotional undressing than a championship match. —

Janey Tracey, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025 In that way, the primary is much more like a general election, and, like any general election, all voters get to participate. —

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