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grosso modo

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From Latin grossō modō.

adverb more grosso modo · most 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 a

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Español	grosso modo, a grosso modo

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@misc{grosso_modo_2026,
  title = {grosso modo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grosso%20modo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}