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as in route
an established course for traveling from one place to another
will take the standard landing approach from the south
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as in method
the means or procedure for doing something
that's a different approach to knitting, but it seems to work
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as in to come
to come near or nearer
the parade's approaching! I can hear the band playing!
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as in to approximate
to come near or nearer to in character or quality
his store-bought dessert doesn't even approach your homemade version of it
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Recent Examples of approach
Christian Dashiell, Parents, 7 June 2025
What’s your approach to treating players as individuals?
—Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2025
Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
With cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency approaching 300,000, per Challenger, Gray & Christmas, this will be a space to watch closely as unemployment benefits and severance pay run out.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 June 2025
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Noun
Though in this particular case, the redditor and his wife didn’t see eye-to-eye on the best approach to take when broaching the topic with their son, which caused significant relational tensions in the couple.
—Christian Dashiell, Parents, 7 June 2025
What’s your approach to treating players as individuals?
—Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2025
Verb
The risk of strong to severe thunderstorms returns Sunday afternoon ahead of an approaching cold front, the weather service said.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
With cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency approaching 300,000, per Challenger, Gray & Christmas, this will be a space to watch closely as unemployment benefits and severance pay run out.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approach
Noun
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Process mining is the statistically most popular routes (where there is tracking).—
Ian Gotts,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Every day at the start of practice, the wide receivers line up and run half-speed routes to get loose, while the quarterbacks throw high-arcing passes downfield.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Hemp processors found ways to use chemical solvents or other methods to produce variants such as Delta-8, Delta-10, and THCO, which can get users high like marijuana.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
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Both methods remained in place as of publication time.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
3 June 2025
Verb
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The ratio approximates a measure of whether a patient has amyloid plaques in their brains − a disease hallmark that is now detected by images from expensive PET scans.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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The good news is that businesses can design AI systems that approximate Rawls' fairness principles.—
Nate Bennett,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And company executives said that taking a slow and steady path to the moon can offer Ispace some long-term advantages.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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The settlement also cleared a path for the operator to permanently shutter all services aside from the emergency and behavioral health at Rockville General Hospital in Vernon, The CT Mirror reported.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2025
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These changes were more than just rebrands: each new name came along with a fundamentally different business strategy.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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But, at this point, Edelman believes that advisers who value diversification as a strategy in their clients’ portfolio — eg, across asset classes, sectors, etc. — would be remiss not to recommend adding at least a small amount of digital asset exposure.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
Verb
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Polls will close at 8 p.m., and observers say a winner could be declared as early as midnight.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2025
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Confession unearthed decades later In 2023 and 2024, prosecutors said the district attorney’s crime lab looked to DNA testing to close the case.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
Verb
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Conor beats Li down a couple times, Han comes to visit, and Li enters the Five Boroughs tournament (where of course a fight against Conor is destined to happen).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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After Klinghoffer entered his plea, a prosecutor read a statement that warned against distracted driving.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Yet Operation Spider's Web, orchestrated by the SBU intelligence service, was also part of a recurring theme: Ukraine keeps inventing new ways to wage war with drones, and regularly catches Russia by surprise.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
7 June 2025
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Staff at Nasser hospital, where six of the bodies over the last 24 hours were taken, said they were killed while on their way to get food aid.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2025
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“Approach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approach. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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