as in equivalent
Synonyms & Similar Words
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Antonyms & Near Antonyms
as in approaching
to come near or nearer to in character or quality
Rob's violin performance last night didn't even approximate what he's really capable of when he's not feeling sick
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximating
Adjective
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The beloved release also improves on the Billboard 200, moving up five places to settle at No. 59, thanks to nearly 15,000 equivalent units moved.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025 -
The neighboring Port of Long Beach moved 9.6 million 20-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, last year.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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Through the first five weeks of the second quarter, Texas Roadhouse said its comparable sales at company restaurants increased 5% year over year.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
8 May 2025
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One that’s more demonstrable in the industry than other comparable examples of societal laziness.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
Verb
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These areas accounted for 71% of corporate deal activity through Q3 2024, reflecting strong demand and strategic importance.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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Deployment grew by 20% in 2024, reflecting higher-quality deals and more realistic valuations.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Sky News and Torrent Freak were able to do the same and found identical results.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Emily killed her identical triplet sister Faith to use her body in the supposed drowning.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
Verb
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Merely matching expectations last season was good enough for the Yankees to win their division and claim home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs.—
Tim Britton,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Lopez's full outfit turned out to be a floor-length skirt with matching embellishments to the abs-baring cropped top.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The work of flattening out three-dimensional sculpture into a two-dimensional painting was analogous to intellectualizing and abstracting Blackness as media became more mobile in the early twentieth century.—
Delinda Collier,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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Together, these provide a wealth of data that any neuroscientist would envy — analogous to a perfect map of a person’s brain, along with separate electrodes to monitor the activity of each neuron.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Another thing to note is that not all glass shower doors are created equal.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Thanks to the genius of Lamine Yamal, however, Flick’s men swiftly pulled one back and were equal by half time through Ferran Torres.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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The rules are strict about uniforms too, which are similar across all public schools – even specifying the types of socks and shoes students must wear.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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Going on multiple dates with multiple people via apps that are more or less pretty similar is going to cause some kind of fatigue.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
3 May 2025
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“Approximating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximating. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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