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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmas ˈbjen/
- Syllabification: más bien
Adverb
más bien
- rather, slightly
Es más bien pequeño- It's rather/quite small / it's smallish
Conjunction
más bien
- rather, or rather (more precisely)
2015 October 20, Jordi Soler, “La destilación genética”, in El País:La obra de Johann Sebastian Bach es un ejemplo, más bien una evidencia, quizá única en la historia del arte, de un fenómeno que se me ocurre llamar destilación genética.- Johann Sebastian Bach's oeuvre is an example, or rather evidence, perhaps unique in the history of art, of a phenomenon I like to call genetic distillation.
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