Meaning of grosso modo | Babel Free

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roughly, circa or approximately

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“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.”

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