Sentence examples for rather than exactly from inspiring English sources

Facebook's way of doing that seems to be a series of expressive "Reactions", rather than exactly replicating the Like button.

"She was saying things she thought the police wanted to hear, rather than exactly what happened," Gillham explains.

But how can West know what to do? Playing the jack would be fatal if East's hearts were the more likely K Q x rather than exactly K Q 10.

Indeed, he believes that natural selection might even actively maintain some species that look vaguely like a lot of different nasty things, rather than exactly like a specific one.His examples are drawn from hoverflies, which mimic bees and wasps, and salticid spiders, which mimic ants.

Willing to take what's available rather than exactly what you want?

In order to achieve a tractable inference of cost-based abduction, we aim at obtaining a nearly, rather than exactly, optimal solution.

I like seeing musicians communicating with each other rather than replicating exactly what's on their records".

Among other things, Crash believes in high fibre (yup), opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve (exactly) and long, slow, deep, soft wet kisses that last three days (sign me up).

The name needed to sum up how the company wanted to be perceived in a more emotional way – the culture and personality, rather than describing exactly what we did".

Obama allowed the hacks on the right to pivot immediately to pinning the entire deficit and debt on Obama — and, amplified by the FNC, they have somehow managed to turn the debate back into the exhausted big-government vs little-guy choice — rather than debating exactly what, if anything, we can do to rescue ourselves from the Bush-Cheney hangover.

The guards can be approximated on the basis of measurements performed by sensory attributes rather than defined exactly.