approximate to
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Committees are roughly approximate to a bureaucratic department in the executive branch.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
The verbosity of the lyrics, along with the minimalism of the music, makes the experience of listening to the record approximate to digesting a collection of short stories.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2017
The Park Service placed Trail of Tears signs in the 1990s, but those were for the Auto Tour route along numbered state and federal highways approximate to the actual trail.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2017
This isn’t even approximate to a stand-up comedian working out new material who gets in trouble when a less-than-kosher bit ends up on YouTube.
From Forbes ● Dec. 11, 2014
Clavius’s argument here is identical with that of modern realists who claim that science must approximate to the truth, otherwise it would not be able to make successful predictions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
