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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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This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers in venture capital and private equity.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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In April, the International Monetary Fund, which for decades has promoted versions of the austerity and deregulation policies that Milei adopted, rewarded Argentina with a new loan of twenty billion dollars.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Of his first impressions of his future wife, Plemons had nothing but praise.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Mindy Clifton made an impression on Sabrina Hawkins when the two met years ago as correction officers in Volusia County, Florida.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
21 Oct. 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 27 Oct. 2025.
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