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roughly
adverb as in about
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The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.
These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.
It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.
By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.
Since 1987, there have been roughly 1,300 cases filed under the blasphemy laws, according to varied reports.
"We will go to the Hotel de l'Europe, if you press it;" and away the cabriolet joggled over the roughly paved street.
He stepped to the girl, and roughly raised her chin with his hand so that she was forced to look him in the face.
A few have the eye and the artistic impulse needed for picturing, roughly at least, the look of an object.
Marceau, indignant at being rebuked by a young staff officer, roughly asked, "And who are you?"
You could use some force to prevent him, you could not kill him, or put out his eyes, or treat him roughly.
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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roughly, such as: approximately, practically, around, in the ball park, in the neighborhood, and more or less.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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