or so

idiom

—used to say that a number, amount, etc., is not exact

We plan to stay a week or so.

Tickets cost $20 or so.

Examples of or so in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Try it for the next year or so: Stop being a heterosexual to demonstrate to your son that a person’s sexuality is a matter of choice – to be dictated by one’s parents, the parents’ church and social pressure. —Amy Dickinson, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024

Prices are falling, in part, because EV sales have hit a plateau in the past year or so, Jenni Newman, the editor-in-chief of Cars.com, told CBS News. —Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 26 June 2024

Over the next 100 years or so, tornadoes regularly appeared without warning, cutting narrow paths of devastation. —Matthew Ormseth, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2024

The Present Be like Anastasia: Life in a New Age Slavic homestead Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly. —Big Think, 24 June 2024