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
Compared to Yale's $135 million five-year agreement with New Haven, Harvard's approximately $10 million annual payments to Cambridge and Boston combined are modest.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Assembled at Port-La Nouvelle and towed 16 km offshore, the turbines now stand ready for the final stage of cable and grid connection works done by RTE, before starting to deliver clean energy to approximately 50,000 inhabitants each year.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Just 2,000 infringing outputs unearthed could cost Midjourney more than its total revenue for 2024, which was approximately $300 million, the WB complaint said.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Only 70,000 Palestinians have so far evacuated Gaza City out of approximately one million people, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday, making up less than 10% of the total population.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Assembled at Port-La Nouvelle and towed 16 km offshore, the turbines now stand ready for the final stage of cable and grid connection works done by RTE, before starting to deliver clean energy to approximately 50,000 inhabitants each year.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Just 2,000 infringing outputs unearthed could cost Midjourney more than its total revenue for 2024, which was approximately $300 million, the WB complaint said.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Only 70,000 Palestinians have so far evacuated Gaza City out of approximately one million people, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday, making up less than 10% of the total population.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximately
Adverb
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The earthquake struck at a depth of 5 miles, with its epicenter roughly 1 mile southeast of Pinnacles.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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His extended family owns roughly 1,200 acres of farmland in the region and grows cotton, wheat, grapes, melons and pistachios.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Pick the stems once the seeds have begun to dry and brown, then loosely bundle them and hang them upside down in a warm, dry place to dry completely, about one or two weeks.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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After about a year of running tests with doctors, they were finally given a diagnosis.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Bocharov Ruchey, the Russian president's summer residence, is located in the Tsentralny district in the northwest of Sochi, around 17 miles from the international airport.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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For comparison, Kansas City’s temperatures are typically around 82 degrees this time of year.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Approximately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximately. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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