grosso modo
Adverb
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Adverb
grosso modo
- roughly, circa or approximately
- 1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.
- The fact that event B takes place in the interval separating events A and C has an invariant significance, which may be expressed grosso modo by saying that events which are closer together have more effects in common.
- 1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95.
- Still others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists.
- 1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.
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