approximate

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In place of the populars, Day said she began measuring herself against her favorite electronic artists, whose style of performance she idolized but felt she could never approximate.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"For example, their eggs are unlike those of any living species, so we invented the resin eggs to approximate real oviraptor eggs as best as we could."

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

Nine could not give an approximate start date.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The approximate share of the population that is estranged from a parent or child at any given time, research shows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

One could predict the approximate number of times that the result would be A or B, but one could not predict the specific result of an individual measurement.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking