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The approximate number of violations of New Mexico law that a jury found Meta Platforms guilty of.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

PSA reported to police that two stolen pallets of about 100 packages of cards apiece had an approximate value of $963,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

To better approximate this environment, the researchers created a simplified artificial gut community containing all 25 bacterial species from their initial experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Your area’s heatwave threshold may be approximate if your postcode is near a county boundary.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The physical similarities were striking: same steroidally round face, same nose, same approximate overall body shape.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

To save the hue, Voltarc reformulated it with a clever workaround: a color-balancing technique that approximates the iconic green glow without the missing component.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“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

His explanation for this time frame is that it approximates the debt refinancing cycle because the weighted average maturity of that debt is just over five years.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025

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

His poetic titles often defy translation; their layered meanings and references can only be approximated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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

Political complexity was greatest on Tonga and Hawaii, where the powers of hereditary chiefs approximated those of kings elsewhere in the world, and where land was controlled by the chiefs, not by the commoners.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

This posture caused blood to shift toward the lower body, approximating the circulatory effects of Martian gravity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Far easier to build the observatory of brick and to spray it with stucco, approximating concrete’s smooth contours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

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

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