roughly

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Meanwhile, earlier this spring, the U.S. government declassified another batch of UFO files and the response was roughly equivalent to a collective shrug.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

In December, Forbes estimated that Trump Jr.’s net worth had rocketed from roughly $50 million to $300 million since the election.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

But research shows that many people follow their intuition and treat the numbers as evenly spaced, placing a billion roughly halfway between a million and trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“But the market can absorb that — like no problem,” Turnquist said, adding that there’s roughly $8 trillion currently parked in U.S. money-market funds.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

By February 1862, more than two thousand soldiers had been killed, and roughly a hundred thousand had been wounded in dozens of minor skirmishes and major battles.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock