approximate
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The map below shows their approximate positions, which were shared with The Wall Street Journal by security officials in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Crockett likens that to the approximate weight of a baseball, “which is seen as maybe a nonstarter for mass appeal.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
When the team modified their simulations to approximate the effects of clouds, the results aligned more closely with the observations.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
The air traffic controller asks him for more details: “Do you have like approximate size or how many engines or style or anything like that?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
In some cases those dates are approximate because there is no record of exact start dates.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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“We continue to believe that ARCC’s current dividend approximates the long-run underlying earnings power of our business,” CEO Kort Schnabel told listeners on last week’s earnings call.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Department of Transportation have begun exploring replacing the existing funding structure with a simpler VMT tax that better aligns use with costs and better approximates the real price of roads.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
The more time they spend together during a summer in an Argentine beachside town, the more Maxi’s straight guy curiosity approximates real romantic interest for the cautious but enticed Pedro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
This approximates the experience of the Project Prakash children, because they can process full color information as soon as their cataracts are removed.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Instead he approximates the accents of teachers and classmates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The researchers first used a vacuum pump to remove air from glass tubes, producing conditions that approximated the near emptiness of space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
So when he launched his own podcast this October, my reaction roughly approximated that one Vince McMahon meme: Bill Nighy has an advice podcast?
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2025
Many argue that while hard to measure, cognitive diversity can be approximated by demographics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
A corona of neon tubes overhead and along the walls of Davies Symphony Hall looked cheesy but approximated Scriabin’s color concept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
“We will,” Alex said, and for the first time since speaking to Bri, he felt something that approximated happiness.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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The majority of its dozen tracks coast along with an agreeable yet lifeless electro-pop groove, with layered voices approximating the earnest and indistinct ballads of latter-day Coldplay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
While Fennell’s film anchors itself in Brontë’s narrative landscape, it also takes creative liberties in service of approximating the director’s personal experience reading it as a teen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
But other approximating physics could be replaced by better or truer formulas.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2023
Crystal was founded in 1962 — the same year as Vail in Colorado — but never developed facilities approximating the industry’s flagship destinations.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
Calmly, Granddaddy said, “I have managed to take perfectly good pecans and ferment them into something approximating cat piss.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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