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The homeowner, Lawn said, relandscaped specifically to comply with Zone Zero guidelines that are enforced locally by the Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District and approximate the state’s framework.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

PSA reported to police that two stolen pallets of about 100 packages of cards apiece had an approximate value of $963,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

To better approximate this environment, the researchers created a simplified artificial gut community containing all 25 bacterial species from their initial experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

This is approximate because some incidents use the date of the attack and some the date on which it was reported.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

In some cases those dates are approximate because there is no record of exact start dates.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

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

The suit approximates that, based on numbers revealed in OpenAI’s paper about GPT-3, Books1 would contain roughly 63,000 titles, and Books2 would include approximately 294,000 titles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

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

Their dynamic approximated the real-life rivalry between 1950s U.S. champion Marty Reisman and Japan’s Hiroji Satoh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

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

Many argue that while hard to measure, cognitive diversity can be approximated by demographics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 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

This posture caused blood to shift toward the lower body, approximating the circulatory effects of Martian gravity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

I toss down a couple steps of something approximating the Charleston.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz