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He gave an approximate estimate that the VAT cut in Northern Ireland would initially cost the Treasury between £225m and £250m a year.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

The approximate number of cities and towns where Amazon said it will expand its drone delivery service by the end of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Pretty soon they seemed very approximate, like the idea of trees: a grayish-brown trunk below, a greenish splodge of something that might have been leaves above.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

During the roughly 10-day shoot, which took place in August 2023, drones approximated the dragons’ flight path so the actors on the ground knew where to look when they craned their necks toward the sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

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

The merchandise was so popular that Murakami and the Dodgers responded by approximating the famous words of Hall of Fame Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks: “Let’s play two!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

When you have people who can’t tell what’s real anymore and what’s authentic because the machine intelligence is now approximating the human intelligence, that is really the biggest risk.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

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