approximate
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Intel’s outlook is improving due to renewed semiconductor strength and the U.S. government’s approximate 10% stake.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Except the UBA is more intricate: “Henry had spent the better part of two months just working with the problem of odds and equilibrium points in an effort to approximate that complexity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
In place of the populars, Day said she began measuring herself against her favorite electronic artists, whose style of performance she idolized but felt she could never approximate.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
More than a dozen could not give an approximate start date.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
A more modem version is the calculation of the approximate number of subatomic bits that would fill up the universe.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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