as in roughly
close to but not exactly
it takes approximately three hours to drive to Dallas
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Recent Examples of approximately
This will cut the company's corporate workforce by approximately 8%, per the AP and CNBC News.
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Turning waste Into energy The Surrey Biofuel Facility processes approximately 115,000 tons of food waste each year.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
The country’s military inventory includes 600 to 700 armored vehicles, around 200 main battle tanks, approximately 100 combat-capable aircraft, and several dozen helicopters.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The aircraft allegedly flew away after approximately 18 seconds.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Turning waste Into energy The Surrey Biofuel Facility processes approximately 115,000 tons of food waste each year.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
The country’s military inventory includes 600 to 700 armored vehicles, around 200 main battle tanks, approximately 100 combat-capable aircraft, and several dozen helicopters.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The aircraft allegedly flew away after approximately 18 seconds.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximately
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The Janesville Farmers Market has close to 100 vendors and serves roughly 5,000 patrons each Saturday from May through October.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In that roughly 40-second snapshot, Sunderland showcase their defensive discipline, intelligence in build-up, and counter-attacking threat — none of which are new.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The display area matches the size of a human pupil and achieves a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch (ppi), which is about 150 times denser than most smartphone screens.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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South Korea’s intelligence agency estimated in September that about 2,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed in the fighting.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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And rather than being designed in a Top Secret military facility—literally, Area 51, used for the U-2—at the expense of billions of taxpayer dollars, Planet’s doing it with around six hundred employees and hardly a security clearance in sight.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Wood was a radio announcer and jazz disc jockey and took DeJohnette around to clubs.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Approximately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximately. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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