approximate

You’re doing your own planning, but you can approximate the process.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The results marked 10 consecutive quarters of growth at Carvana, executives said, and the approximate doubling of retail sales in the past two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow, increasing the index’s technology exposure with an approximate 4.0% weighting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

There are a number of ways to establish someone’s approximate survival expectations without actually asking.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

“We continue to believe that ARCC’s current dividend approximates the long-run underlying earnings power of our business,” CEO Kort Schnabel told listeners on last week’s earnings call.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Department of Transportation have begun exploring replacing the existing funding structure with a simpler VMT tax that better aligns use with costs and better approximates the real price of roads.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

This approximates the experience of the Project Prakash children, because they can process full color information as soon as their cataracts are removed.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Cultivated meat is created by growing livestock cells in a nutrient-dense fluid, then layering them in a way that approximates muscle fibers.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2024

Instead he approximates the accents of teachers and classmates.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The researchers first used a vacuum pump to remove air from glass tubes, producing conditions that approximated the near emptiness of space.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

The depreciation cost, they approximated, is actually $400 million a year, not $138 million like standard accounting principles had suggested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

So when he launched his own podcast this October, my reaction roughly approximated that one Vince McMahon meme: Bill Nighy has an advice podcast?

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2025

Portraying himself as Nancy Iskander, he approximated the location of the children.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Call it one hundred because ninety-five cries out to be approximated.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Far easier to build the observatory of brick and to spray it with stucco, approximating concrete’s smooth contours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Nowadays, Thewlis’ return to something approximating our old-fashioned picture of Holmes reminds us of sensibility’s valiance in a world given to absurdity and madness.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

When you have people who can’t tell what’s real anymore and what’s authentic because the machine intelligence is now approximating the human intelligence, that is really the biggest risk.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

However, scientists think they are close to approximating a Majorana particle in a much different guise.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck