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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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After doing that we discovered that a extinction event we think occurred 46,500 years ago, give or take a couple of thousand years.
Around the age of 40, give or take, the focusing system of the eye becomes less flexible, a normal aging process called presbyopia.
Everything I tell you really did happen, give or take a few liberties of poetic licence.
You must always reapply your sunblock after about an hour and a half, give or take how light you are.
I have two Quarter Horse geldings, one age 22, by his papers, and the other is about the same age, give or take a year or two.
I've been a private eye for thirty-five years, give or take, and I've never run across anything like this.

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