Definition of quasi | Bee Dictionary of English

PTI: You emphasize the word "quasi".
By the breadth of his crimes, which have attained a quasi-ontological dimension, he surpasses all his predecessors: as a result of Hitler, man is defined by what makes him inhuman.
In the course of defending himself to the Inspector General's office, one of the generals asserted his belief that the Christian Embassy had become a "quasi-federal entity.

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In some ways, Old Town is a weird, quasi-Mexican Disneyland soaked in overpriced and underpowered margaritas. We go around it at all costs, leaving the curios historicity to the tourists. But Old Town doesn’t totally suck! Harney Sushi is OK and 25Forty Bistro can be rad.
June 11, 2013 - San Diego Reader
Kanye West's New 'I Am a God': 'Difficult' Art Rap for Art's Sake?
As the release date of Kanye West's next album Yeezus nears, rap radio has taken to resurrecting recent Kanye West singles. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 's "Monster" seems to be back in quasi-rotation and Cruel Summer cut "Clique," which never quite went away, has also returned with a vengeance...
June 10, 2013 - Spin

John McCain in Bloomberg
McCain called the situation "an example of cronyism, special interest, lobbyists, a quasi-governmental organization where the executives were making hundreds of, some billion dollars, a year while things were going downhill."
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Washington Post
If reports are accurate, Ms. Williams' scheduled visit to Cuba went far beyond its stated purpose and turned into a quasi-summit with officials of the Cuban regime,US Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wrote...
Jean-Claude Trichet in Irish Times
A more stringent implementation of rules and procedures is essential, among other things by increasing the automaticity and speed of procedural steps. The initiation of sanctions also needs to be quasi-automatic,he said. "Sanctions need to...

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