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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 approximate number of autonomous rides expected in the U.S. this year, up from around 15 million in 2025, according to Morgan Stanley estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

Pretty soon they seemed very approximate, like the idea of trees: a grayish-brown trunk below, a greenish splodge of something that might have been leaves above.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

“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

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

The suit approximates that, based on numbers revealed in OpenAI’s paper about GPT-3, Books1 would contain roughly 63,000 titles, and Books2 would include approximately 294,000 titles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Instead he approximates the accents of teachers and classmates.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 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

To avoid overlap, the vertical placement of some circles is approximated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Call it one hundred because ninety-five cries out to be approximated.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

Nowadays, Thewlis’ return to something approximating our old-fashioned picture of Holmes reminds us of sensibility’s valiance in a world given to absurdity and madness.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

When you have people who can’t tell what’s real anymore and what’s authentic because the machine intelligence is now approximating the human intelligence, that is really the biggest risk.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

However, scientists think they are close to approximating a Majorana particle in a much different guise.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck