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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The entity manifests more like a trick of lighting than anything corporeal.
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Jamie Lang, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Rich Riffle, the Ada County coroner, told ProPublica that a county attorney drafted the proposal based on Riffle’s goal to have Idaho treat coroner records more like law enforcement records.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 5 Mar. 2025
Sold more like a lifestyle brand than furniture, pieces are available on Business & Pleasure’s website as well as through popular retailers, including Anthropologie, Revolve, Lulu & Georgia, Serena & Lily, Pottery Barn, and West Elm.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
All of the goodwill and warm feelings generated by the Mavericks’ run to the 2024 NBA Finals, and signing free agent Klay Thompson, have been thrown into an incinerator in a month that feels more like a decade.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
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Jamie Lang, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Rich Riffle, the Ada County coroner, told ProPublica that a county attorney drafted the proposal based on Riffle’s goal to have Idaho treat coroner records more like law enforcement records.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 5 Mar. 2025
Sold more like a lifestyle brand than furniture, pieces are available on Business & Pleasure’s website as well as through popular retailers, including Anthropologie, Revolve, Lulu & Georgia, Serena & Lily, Pottery Barn, and West Elm.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
All of the goodwill and warm feelings generated by the Mavericks’ run to the 2024 NBA Finals, and signing free agent Klay Thompson, have been thrown into an incinerator in a month that feels more like a decade.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
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“More like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20like. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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