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Recent Examples of approximation
Awareness is always a beat too late — our minds stitching together a rough approximation of what exactly happened.
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Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
As Bitcoin either forces the world back on to classical money or becomes the approximation of classical money itself, dispatching fiat to the ash-bin of history, the demand for hedges against the whole currency system will fall.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
While 110 students from around the world went to work on complex math problems using pen and paper, several AI companies quietly tested new models in development on a computerized approximation of the exam.
—Emily Riehl, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
In those instances, researchers analyzed the number of clinics in a specific country in order to determine that nation's approximation of IVF births.
—De Elizabeth, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025
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Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
As Bitcoin either forces the world back on to classical money or becomes the approximation of classical money itself, dispatching fiat to the ash-bin of history, the demand for hedges against the whole currency system will fall.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
While 110 students from around the world went to work on complex math problems using pen and paper, several AI companies quietly tested new models in development on a computerized approximation of the exam.
—Emily Riehl, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
In those instances, researchers analyzed the number of clinics in a specific country in order to determine that nation's approximation of IVF births.
—De Elizabeth, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximation
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Elsewhere in the sale, a Cartier Baignoire sold for four times its estimate, at $283,921, in a world record for a regular-size version of the model.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
11 Nov. 2025
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The 2026 model will be available in an all-electric flavor for the first time, in addition to the existing diesel hybrid powertrain version that was introduced earlier this year.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
10 Nov. 2025
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The Sixers took the season opener in Boston 117-116, thanks to a Tyrese Maxey 40-piece and VJ Edgecombe’s Wilt Chamberlain impression.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Driving impressions Fuel economy for the most efficient front-drive models is 33 mpg in the city, 35 on the highway and 34 in combined driving.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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In New York, the story of real estate is also a story of reincarnation.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Most commonly used in Vedic astrology to look at the karmic and spiritual aspect of your life (think past lives, reincarnation lessons, and your destiny) , sidereal astrology is a system that aligns with the stars and bases each zodiac on the actual constellations in the sky.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Approximation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximation. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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