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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Go down another 20,000 miles (about 32,000 kilometers), and the hydrogen becomes more like flowing liquid metal, a material so exotic that only recently, and with great difficulty, have scientists reproduced it in the laboratory. Benjamin Roulston, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024 Early iterations seemed more like novelty acts than transformative tools. Cory McNeley, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 But the war room looked, to some, less like a solution and more like a mollifying stunt—a show put on for the press. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024 These games are priced more like console games than iPhone games. Craig Grannell, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for more like 

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“More like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20like. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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