approximation

From my vantage point — again, about three-fourths of the way into the theater — the animatronic was a more-than-respectable approximation of Disney.

To stay safe, some immigrants have swapped in-person activities with digital approximations.

The figure is considered a good approximation for arrests.

The Dodgers would welcome a return to even an approximation of that effectiveness.

In “Gatz,” the novel’s narrative texture was conveyed through zany approximation — the troupe finding Fitzgerald not by effacing itself but by embracing its eccentric difference.