approximating

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

However, scientists think they are close to approximating a Majorana particle in a much different guise.

Because Sondheim was not around for the rehearsal process, it’s impossible to say whether he would have thought the musical had attained something approximating final form.

Driven by the urge to celebrate and romanticize revered but deceased public figures, they would first examine the bones of a dead person before approximating their appearance in sculpture.

Appropriately programmed computer simulations of the brain, with massive feedback and something approximating a central workspace, will consciously experience the world—perhaps not now but soon enough.