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The approximate number of cities and towns where Amazon said it will expand its drone delivery service by the end of this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He added: "Given the event's profile, which as anticipated, resulted in an approximate $30m loss, our margins at UFC as well as on a consolidated basis were meaningfully impacted."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
You’re doing your own planning, but you can approximate the process.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Uh, I have an approximate idea of the intersection,” I say.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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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
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
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
Instead he approximates the accents of teachers and classmates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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
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
Their dynamic approximated the real-life rivalry between 1950s U.S. champion Marty Reisman and Japan’s Hiroji Satoh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
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
“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
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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
The merchandise was so popular that Murakami and the Dodgers responded by approximating the famous words of Hall of Fame Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks: “Let’s play two!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
In something more approximating plain English: Smith could ask Cannon’s de facto bosses at the U.S.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
When you have people who can’t tell what’s real anymore and what’s authentic because the machine intelligence is now approximating the human intelligence, that is really the biggest risk.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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