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Recent Examples of roughly The earthquake's epicenter was situated roughly 6 miles north-northeast of Cabazon and occurred at a depth of 8 miles. Ca Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025 The news comes roughly three months after KPop Demon Hunters premiered on Netflix, rapidly becoming a pop culture phenomenon. Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2025 Try the roughly two-mile Hickman Bridge Trail to admire the canyon and walk beneath the 300-foot Hickman Bridge, a natural sandstone arch. Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025 That’s roughly 80 to 90 stores across 20 states, three of which are located in Nashville. Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for roughly
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Adverb
  • Front Office Sports reported Friday that Stars ownership is considering a site in Plano, Texas, approximately 20 miles from Dallas.
    Rob Rossi, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The epicenter was situated approximately 2 miles southeast of Warner Springs, at a depth of 11 miles.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • On July 14, a jury of 10 women and two men found Serafini guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder for the shooting that killed his father-in-law Gary Spohr, 70, and severely wounded his mother-in-law, Wendy Wood, 68, at their home near Lake Tahoe.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Hamas' top leadership has been assassinated, its fighting capacity severely curbed in Gaza.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Eaton said the eldest child with the woman was about 9 and the youngest was just a baby.
    John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That’s about 5 percent of the 1,874 total passengers onboard.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In the 42nd minute, having cut inside Niang, Leysen lunged wildly to try and prevent Elanga recovering the ball, but got nowhere near it and conceded a penalty (he was harshly adjudged to have handballed it during the second half for another spot kick, too).
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • He was immediately called out by a member of the Directing Staff, who addressed him harshly by his team number.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Her favorite ways to move around are by train and bike, and her backpack always has nuts, clementines, and something to read.
    Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Jared Spurgeon and Jonas Brodin have been around for about half of the franchise’s existence — two long-time pillars on the back end.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The second planet from the sun has a completely inhospitable surface, with temperatures reaching 863 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius) and a crushing pressure underneath an oppressively thick atmosphere.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • On an oppressively hot Friday in July, plumes of smoke curl up from Arnolds Field.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Nobody worked harder in practice, and that became contagious to his teammates.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The best curtains on Amazon are hard-working pieces of home decor.
    Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The drama follows Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) as a detective called in to investigate the 1987 massacre of four scientists brutally murdered in inexplicable ways, with a lone survivor the obvious suspect.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Roughly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roughly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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