approximate

Your area’s heatwave threshold may be approximate if your postcode is near a county boundary.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Note: Locations for some assets are approximate; list is not exhaustive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

You’re doing your own planning, but you can approximate the process.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Foremole and his team knew all there was to know about the diggings: depth, approximate dimensions, the placement of shoring, even where the first rat’s head was likely to break ground.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

His explanation for this time frame is that it approximates the debt refinancing cycle because the weighted average maturity of that debt is just over five years.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025

Fictionalized versions of real-world scenarios are never going to be as accurate as the true experience, but the show’s 1990 version of a platoon better approximates the Marines’ professed ideal.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 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

The depreciation cost, they approximated, is actually $400 million a year, not $138 million like standard accounting principles had suggested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Rather, they meant to establish what Lincoln called a “standard maxim for free society,” which should be constantly looked to, labored for and more nearly approximated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Call it one hundred because ninety-five cries out to be approximated.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Far easier to build the observatory of brick and to spray it with stucco, approximating concrete’s smooth contours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

In something more approximating plain English: Smith could ask Cannon’s de facto bosses at the U.S.

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

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

Calmly, Granddaddy said, “I have managed to take perfectly good pecans and ferment them into something approximating cat piss.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly