approximation
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"Her voice sounded fragile and exposed, but at least it was her distinctive voice, not some autotuned approximation."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Our technique turns out to be remarkably stable. Depending on the desired precision, we can systematically improve our formulas using additional approximation methods," says Florian Ecker from TU Wien.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Investigators then generated a forensic approximation of what she might have looked like based on a combination of DNA technology, her remains and Jesperson’s descriptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Their books have both a stance on the world and a willingness to recognize the human beings, the political situations, the complicated relationships that make any stance, at best, an approximation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
For a long time, this was sufficient justification for Friedmann’s assumption—as a rough approximation to the real universe.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing approximation
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