"grosso modo" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin grossō modō.",
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      "form": "more grosso modo",
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          "text": "1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.\nThe 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."
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          "text": "1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95.\nStill others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists."
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