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more or less
1. approximately. The box weighs 50 pounds, more or less. Each of the calls was more or less 10 minutes long.
2. to some degree. This room is more or less an extra — we don't really need it.
See also: less, more

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Month after month for the six years in which the "Editor's Study" continued in the keeping of its first occupant, its lesson was more or less stormily delivered, to the exclusion, for the greater part, of other prophecy, but it has not been found well to keep the tempestuous manner along with the fulminant matter in this volume.
To say what the net profits have been, to the entire body of people who have invested money in the telephone, will always be more or less of a guess.
I do not mean by this that one substance cannot be more or less truly substance than another, for it has already been stated' that this is the case; but that no single substance admits of varying degrees within itself.
 
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