roughly

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The deal must still be ratified in a vote of the plant’s roughly 970 hourly workers, which isn’t guaranteed to succeed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Musk said this week that SpaceX will try to achieve a roughly annualized rate of 1 gigawatt per year of AI computing power in space by the end of 2027.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

The soft tissue and lipids inside that many carcasses "translates to roughly 6.7 million tonnes of sequestered carbon," Xiaotong Peng said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Later, there was an attack in the centre of the city of Sidon, which is located on the coast roughly halfway between Tyre and the capital Beirut.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Leah, Maggie, Kate, and their mother traveled with a group of roughly twenty Rochester followers back to Hydesville.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock