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Recent Examples of roughly Between 2018 and 2022 — a period during which Monzo’s customer base soared roughly tenfold to 5.8 million users — the watchdog found that Monzo did not obtain sufficient information about customers during the onboarding process, the FCA said in a statement. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 July 2025 Clinics that deployed those tools saw denial rates drop by up to 45%, shaving a median nine days off accounts receivable cycles and preserving roughly $1.4 million in annual savings per 100-bed equivalent each year. Sally Ragab, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 The project is expected to cost roughly $95 million, according to commission documents. Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025 Visitors to the Presidio of San Francisco, a National Historic Landmark and former military garrison with a complex history seemed unimpressed by the small black-and-white sign placed on a coffee table at roughly shin-level near the Presidio's welcome center on a recent morning. Chloe Veltman, NPR, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for roughly
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Adverb
  • According to a 2024 Bank of America report, approximately 25% of households live paycheck to paycheck, which has forced retailers to go on the offensive.
    Atal Bansal, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • These are only a few examples of the deep ties between higher education and the founding generation; approximately half of them attained some form of it—an impressively high level of advanced learning for the time.
    Time, Time, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • Yes, a couple of Czech producers came up with an idea influenced by or inspired by the Wim Wenders documentary about 18 months ago.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
  • The cooling station will be open every 90-degree day for about the next three months.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • Animals go to the bathroom, reject unwanted affection, gobble food, sleep for hours, and bite their toenails without a moment of hesitation or a shameful glance around to see if anyone’s looking.
    Mari Andrew, Time, 1 July 2025
  • Culiacan, which has around 1 million residents and is the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state, has been wrought by a war for control between two rival drug trafficking groups of the Sinaloa cartel – Los Chapitos and La Mayiza.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • This is important because using either the non-taxpayer midlevel exception or the bi-annual exception would hard cap the Heat at the first apron of $195.9 million.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • In travel, this shows up in places that are calm, intentional, and not trying too hard.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

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“Roughly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roughly. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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