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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

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

However, the BCS theory -- named after its creators -- provides only an approximate description.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026

Foremole and his team knew all there was to know about the diggings: depth, approximate dimensions, the placement of shoring, even where the first rat’s head was likely to break ground.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

“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

Cultivated meat is created by growing livestock cells in a nutrient-dense fluid, then layering them in a way that approximates muscle fibers.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2024

To get around those anatomical differences, Poinar said, spiders typically position their two front legs in a way that approximates the look of antennae.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2024

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 depreciation cost, they approximated, is actually $400 million a year, not $138 million like standard accounting principles had suggested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

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

In something more approximating plain English: Smith could ask Cannon’s de facto bosses at the U.S.

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

But other approximating physics could be replaced by better or truer formulas.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2023

It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

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