Thesaurus / approximate
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In the absence of live interactions, we must do our best as a society to approximate them.
MISS MANNERS: PRACTICE SAYING ‘I’VE GOT IT, THANKS’JUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOf the approximate 1,800 fatalities from mid-May to mid-June, 70 percent were people older than 70.
900,000 INFECTED. NEARLY 15,000 DEAD. HOW THE CORONAVIRUS TORE THROUGH D.C., MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA.REBECCA TAN, ANTONIO OLIVO, JOHN D. HARDENFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSome brands pack on features that allow users to more closely approximate the cinematic experience, but if you’re in the HD range, you’re already on your way.
BEST 2 IN 1 LAPTOPS: WORK HARD, PLAY HARD WITH THESE VERSATILE PICKSPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMJANUARY 27, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEI would never have figured out on my own that Braun-Meuser-Case was supposed to approximate “brand-new suitcase.”
STYLE CONVERSATIONAL WEEK 1419: A SMILE FOR THE CAPITOL?PAT MYERSJANUARY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSolver Alex Vornsand approximated the size of this region by picking random points in the circle and seeing how many would have resulted in a balanced disk.
CAN YOU CUT THE SQUARE … INTO MORE SQUARES?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJANUARY 8, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTMuch later, when you’re doing something that more closely approximates actual surfing, you won’t think much of the pop-up.
HOW I LEARNED TO SURF IN MIDDLE AGETOM VANDERBILTJANUARY 5, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINESoft robots are made of the squishiest stuff, including nanomaterials, enabling them to approximate biological functions such as those of human muscles.
WHY ‘SOFT ROBOTS’ HAVE NASA, DOCTORS, AND TECH WHIZZES SO EXCITEDJAKEMETHJANUARY 1, 2021FORTUNEDNNs are mathematical models that string together chains of simple functions that approximate real neurons.
AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN NEUROSCIENCE - ISSUE 94: EVOLVINGGRIGORI GUITCHOUNTSDECEMBER 30, 2020NAUTILUSFill power is a measurement of the quality of the down, and it’s the approximate volume in cubic inches of one ounce of down.
DO YOU ACTUALLY NEED A 1,000-FILL DOWN JACKET?RYAN WICHELNSDECEMBER 23, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEZoom-shot programming still became a new genre, but producers quickly developed the capabilities and processes to remotely produce shows and videos that more closely approximated a traditional production than a webcam confessional.
HOW THE FUTURE OF TV WAS RESHAPED BY 2020TIM PETERSONDECEMBER 16, 2020DIGIDAYWORDS RELATED TO APPROXIMATE
- account
- appraise
- approximate
- calculate
- call
- cast
- cipher
- compute
- conjecture
- consider
- count
- count heads
- count noses
- deem
- enumerate
- esteem
- estimate
- figure
- figure out
- foot
- gauge
- guess
- hold
- judge
- keep tabs
- look upon
- number
- place
- put
- rate
- regard
- run down
- square
- sum
- take account of
- tally
- think of
- tick off
- tot
- tot up
- total
- tote
- tote up
- view
- appear like
- approximate
- be similar to
- be the very picture of
- bear resemblance to
- bring to mind
- coincide
- come close to
- come near
- correspond to
- double
- duplicate
- echo
- favor
- feature
- follow
- have earmarks of
- have signs of
- match
- mirror
- parallel
- pass for
- relate
- remind one of
- seem like
- simulate
- smack of
- sound like
- take after
- appeared like
- approximated
- bore resemblance to
- brought to mind
- came close to
- came near
- coincided
- corresponded to
- doubled
- duplicated
- echoed
- favored
- featured
- followed
- had earmarks of
- had signs of
- matched
- mirrored
- paralleled
- passed for
- related
- reminded one of
- seemed like
- simulated
- smack of
- sounded like
- took after
- was similar to
- was the very picture of
- appears like
- approximates
- bears resemblance to
- brings to mind
- coincides
- comes close to
- comes near
- corresponds to
- doubles
- duplicates
- echoes
- favors
- features
- follows
- has earmarks of
- has signs of
- is similar to
- is the very picture of
- matches
- mirrors
- parallels
- passes for
- relates
- reminds one of
- seems like
- simulates
- smack of
- sounds like
- takes after
- amounted
- approached
- approximated
- bore comparison with
- came near to
- came up to
- compared with
- competed
- contended
- contested
- corresponded
- emulated
- equalled
- jockey for position
- matched
- measured up to
- met
- neared
- partook
- resembled
- rivalized
- scrambled for
- sought to displaced
- tied
- touched
- vied with
- went after
- went for
- amounts
- approaches
- approximates
- bears comparison with
- comes near to
- comes up to
- compares with
- competes
- contends
- contests
- corresponds
- emulates
- equals
- goes after
- goes for
- jockey for position
- matches
- measures up to
- meets
- nears
- partakes
- resembles
- rivalizes
- scrambles for
- seeks to displaces
- ties
- touches
- vies with
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