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The approximate price of Leica’s digital M11 camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Early data is approximate and we won’t get any official inflation figures until next month.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Because the collision was considered violent enough to melt and vaporize large portions of Earth and Theia, those previous papers assumed that it is okay to approximate them as fluids," Asphaug said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Senate seats in South Carolina become open with the approximate frequency of a total solar eclipse.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Let’s explore ways to utilize familiar pedagogies to approximate the core cultural values associated with music in West African culture.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

To save the hue, Voltarc reformulated it with a clever workaround: a color-balancing technique that approximates the iconic green glow without the missing component.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“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

The more time they spend together during a summer in an Argentine beachside town, the more Maxi’s straight guy curiosity approximates real romantic interest for the cautious but enticed Pedro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

His poetic titles often defy translation; their layered meanings and references can only be approximated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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

Many argue that while hard to measure, cognitive diversity can be approximated by demographics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

“We will,” Alex said, and for the first time since speaking to Bri, he felt something that approximated happiness.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The majority of its dozen tracks coast along with an agreeable yet lifeless electro-pop groove, with layered voices approximating the earnest and indistinct ballads of latter-day Coldplay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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

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

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

Because Sondheim was not around for the rehearsal process, it’s impossible to say whether he would have thought the musical had attained something approximating final form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking