quasi

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The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, described as a quasi-public agency, was created in

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  1. adjective Having a likeness to something; resembling: a quasi success.

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  • The key is that Lynch will not appoint an ambitious Republican, who could then use his or her quasi-incumbency to entrench for '10. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, described as a quasi-public agency, was created in —  The Taunton Gazette Home RSS
  • One issue that will have to be sorted out is whether TVA's status as a quasi-government or federal entity will allow it to be sued, he said. —  WBIR.com - News
  • As a Conservative, I want to punish the Republican Party for their malfeasance and departure from (quasi -) sound economic principles. —  Jason Clarke's meta feed
  • "His doctrine of the afterlife was created to satisfy his need to provide some kind of quasi-universalism and to cover his moral failures," he said. —  Latest Articles
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  1. Middle English, as if, from Old French, from Latin quasi : quam, as; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + sī, if; see swo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, as if, just as, as it were, about, nearly, from quam, as, how, + si, if.
 

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