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Senate seats in South Carolina become open with the approximate frequency of a total solar eclipse.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

He added: "Given the event's profile, which as anticipated, resulted in an approximate $30m loss, our margins at UFC as well as on a consolidated basis were meaningfully impacted."

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

You’re doing your own planning, but you can approximate the process.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The results marked 10 consecutive quarters of growth at Carvana, executives said, and the approximate doubling of retail sales in the past two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

I could tell she was measuring up its shadow to determine the approximate hour.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

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

Fictionalized versions of real-world scenarios are never going to be as accurate as the true experience, but the show’s 1990 version of a platoon better approximates the Marines’ professed ideal.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

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

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

He’d even approximated the artillery reach from each of the gun turrets on the towers and signified with dotted lines how he guessed the different inner chambers would be laid out.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

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

Sometimes seasoned simply with salt and pepper, sometimes coated in Shake ’n Bake, that sandy, paprika-tinged breadcrumb mix that crisped into something approximating a crust.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

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

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

Because Sondheim was not around for the rehearsal process, it’s impossible to say whether he would have thought the musical had attained something approximating final form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

He makes the best and most subtle martini in the world by a process approximating magic.

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