roughly

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There are roughly 1 million $28 tickets total.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

Working Americans spend roughly 6% of their budget on healthcare, so that price increase added about 0.18 percentage points to their personal inflation rate.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

That’s roughly $2 billion shy of what Amazon paid to acquire Whole Foods in 2017 and more than what it paid to beef up its streaming service with MGM in 2021.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Snap said it plans to cut around 1,000 jobs, roughly 16% of its full-time workforce, as the social-media company struggles with profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

The boulder, roughly the size of a pickup truck, tumbled off into the fog like it had important business elsewhere.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan