approximate

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Hegseth on Thursday indirectly confirmed the approximate value of the Pentagon's request for additional funding, saying: "As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move."

From Barron's

"For example, their eggs are unlike those of any living species, so we invented the resin eggs to approximate real oviraptor eggs as best as we could."

From Science Daily

Then we clustered dripping wet around the heap of prison dresses, holding them up, passing them about, looking for approximate fits.

From Literature

Interactions are then added as small corrections, allowing researchers to approximate how large numbers of particles affect each other.

From Science Daily

As a result, simulations often run for weeks while still providing only approximate answers.

From Science Daily