to the effect
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With more or less the meaning of.
- He was vague but said something to the effect that he'd do it soon.
- “You said something to the effect of, ‘You gotta start doing something different,’” the pop star recalled of the initial conversation with her mom.2026 July 4, Brittany Spanos, “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce marry at New York City’s Madison Square Garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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- or words to that effect, be like, on the lines of