approximate

Example Sentences

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There had been no photos of it, but an accurate-enough description in the first report was all he needed to approximate the horror.

From Literature

But it stopped short of collecting even approximate GPS information from American users operating the most updated version of the app, according to a 2024 version of its privacy policy.

From BBC

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach, but the rule of 120 stipulates that you can subtract your age from 120 to give you an approximate weighting in equities that would match your age.

From MarketWatch

I could tell she was measuring up its shadow to determine the approximate hour.

From Literature

“Bitcoin is within an approximate horizontal trend … assessed as technically neutral,” signifying unlikely massive moves ahead, according to investing platform Investtech’s analysis of technical indicators.

From Barron's