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as in: approached the city Define
to come near or nearer
- He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
- A momentary hush passed over the group of people round the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an Inner Party member approaching.
- Winston caught scraps of conversation as he approached.
- A week had gone by since she had first approached him.
- He still had not the courage to approach her.
- If she judged that the coast was clear she would blow her nose when he approached; otherwise he was to walk past her without recognition.
- There was another spasm in his entrails, the heavy boots were approaching.
- The boots were approaching again.
- He approached it, then stopped short.
- One of them approached with the gin bottle.
- As they drifted down the crowded pavements, not quite abreast and never looking at one another, they carried on a curious, intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse, suddenly nipped into silence by the approach of a Party uniform or the proximity of a telescreen, then taken up again minutes later in the middle of a sentence, then abruptly cut short as they parted at the agreed spot, then continued almost without introduction on the following day.
- But in matters of vital importance — meaning, in effect, war and police espionage — the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.
- Perhaps I just need to work harder, but I may need an entirely different approach to the problem.
- She always approaches problems in a thoughtful manner.
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as in: use the best approach Define
a way of doing something; or a rout that leads to a particular place
There are no more uses of "approach" identified with this meaning in the book.
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as in: approached the city Define
to come near or nearer
as in: use the best approach
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a way of doing something; or a rout that leads to a particular place
as in: approached her with the proposal
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to speak with someone about something for the first time -- such as a proposal -- often something discussed in a delicate, tentative way
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