or under
idiom
: or less (than a stated number or amount)
Most of the restaurant's entrees are $10 or under.
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Building An Innovative Culture In my experience, innovation struggles in isolation or under fear of failure.
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Vanessa Thompson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Ingrassia insisted to colleagues that anyone who worked under the Biden administration's attorney general, Merrick Garland, or under attorney general Bill Barr during Trump's first administration, should be presumed as unqualified to work for Trump's new administration, sources said.
—Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2025
Six years after the Woolsey fire destroyed 465 single-family homes in Malibu, city officials said about 39 percent of those have been reconstructed, according to the Los Angeles Times: 183 have been completed, 192 are in planning or under construction and no plans have been submitted for 90 homes.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Speaking to reporters outside of the courtroom, Loyo’s mother Maria Elena Guerrero echoed laments heard by the families of others who have died in custody or under the supervision of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
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Vanessa Thompson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Ingrassia insisted to colleagues that anyone who worked under the Biden administration's attorney general, Merrick Garland, or under attorney general Bill Barr during Trump's first administration, should be presumed as unqualified to work for Trump's new administration, sources said.
—Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2025
Six years after the Woolsey fire destroyed 465 single-family homes in Malibu, city officials said about 39 percent of those have been reconstructed, according to the Los Angeles Times: 183 have been completed, 192 are in planning or under construction and no plans have been submitted for 90 homes.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Speaking to reporters outside of the courtroom, Loyo’s mother Maria Elena Guerrero echoed laments heard by the families of others who have died in custody or under the supervision of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Or under.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/or%20under. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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