roughly

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Working Americans spend roughly 6% of their budget on healthcare, so that price increase added about 0.18 percentage points to their personal inflation rate.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

In the past, this could be met with roughly 60GW of capacity from coal, gas and nuclear power stations.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

There are roughly 1 million $28 tickets total.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

That’s roughly $2 billion shy of what Amazon paid to acquire Whole Foods in 2017 and more than what it paid to beef up its streaming service with MGM in 2021.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Their profits have risen from roughly $400 million in 2004 to $700 million in 2005, on their way to $1 billion in 2006.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis