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What does give or take mean?

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Adverb
  1. (informal) Approximately; plus or minus some unknown amount.
  2. (informal) Approximately; within a certain margin of error.
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Although no one knows for certain, most authorities agree that the pug originated in China around 2,500 years ago, give or take a few centuries.
They found that the mass extinction occurred 46,400 years ago, give or take 3,000 years.
And that, give or take a few sequences depicting extreme and aberrant weather conditions around the globe, is it.
After doing that we discovered that a extinction event we think occurred 46,500 years ago, give or take a couple of thousand years.
I've been a private eye for thirty-five years, give or take, and I've never run across anything like this.
Everything I tell you really did happen, give or take a few liberties of poetic licence.

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