roughly
Example Sentences
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The fire sparked a shelter-in-place order that covered an area extending roughly from south of the 101 Freeway to Washington Boulevard, and east of Soto Street to Indiana Street.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
Memory stocks have made and lost fortunes in roughly the same rhythm for decades — a surge in demand, a flood of supply, a crash in prices, then repeat.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026
Air Force officials say they want the drones to cost roughly one-third of a manned fighter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
By contrast, the image on the left, taken in June 2023, shows the reservoir at roughly 60 percent capacity.
From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2026
From his medicine pouch he took his last scrap of birch bast, and roughly bandaged the wound.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
