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Even as the White House embraces AI as an engine of “human flourishing,” the administration continues to wrestle with the potential spiritual consequences of advanced machines that approximate human consciousness and often exceed human capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

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 old miner reports the names of many of the towns and their approximate sizes, which he knows off the top of his head and apparently finds very interesting.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

The more time they spend together during a summer in an Argentine beachside town, the more Maxi’s straight guy curiosity approximates real romantic interest for the cautious but enticed Pedro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 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

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

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

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

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking