Sample Sentences for
approximate
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    I knew osteosarcoma was highly curable, but still. There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking. I used the classic: "So, are you in school?"  (source)
    approximate = rough estimate of
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    When the Leeps' shouting reached the same approximate decibel level as a B-52, Beatrice lowered her stepbrother out a bathroom window.  (source)
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    With daily doses of this trigger chemical, the plastic will gradually melt away and be absorbed into the body. Your face goes back to where it started. More or less. ... We can only approximate the places where bone was shaved away.  (source)
    approximate = get close, but not match exactly
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    He had approximately one thousand dollars tucked in his boot.  (source)
    approximately = about
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    One region is the world of the senses, about which we can only have approximate or incomplete knowledge...  (source)
    approximate = not exact
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    I'm just approximating.†  (source)
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    He approximated the movement he had made.  (source)
    approximated = roughly duplicated
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    The rebar approximates a kataria, but it is very much heavier.†  (source)
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    When at last we left Mrs. Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge, we drove for approximately three minutes.  (source)
    approximately = about
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    The Japanese scientists thought they knew the exact height at which the bomb at Hiroshima was exploded and the approximate weight of the uranium used.  (source)
    approximate = almost, but not exact
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    For though it sometimes satisfied him, he was fully aware it didn't quite hit the mark as yet, and also that to some extent it had a facility of tone approximating, remotely perhaps, but recognizably, to the commonplace.†  (source)
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    Call it one hundred because ninety-five cries out to be approximated.  (source)
    approximated = rounded (roughly estimated)
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    As each class approximates to other classes, and intermingles with them, its members become indifferent and as strangers to one another.†  (source)
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