roughly

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Most of the stars in a globular cluster are born from the same collapsing cloud of gas, so they tend to be roughly the same age.

From Science Daily • Jul. 5, 2026

The islands' roughly 200,000 inhabitants have queued at petrol stations in recent days and thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.

From Barron's • Jul. 4, 2026

Temperatures there are expected to be roughly 20 degrees cooler than in New York City, which Sutherlin said was part of the calculation when planning the trip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 4, 2026

The vacancy rate was roughly 7.6% as of May, according to Aaron Kirk Douglas, director of market intelligence at the Portland-based brokerage HFO Investment Real Estate.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2026

There are roughly twenty-five varieties of bamboo plants grown in the area where the pandas currently live.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh