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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
  • When the Leeps' shouting reached the same approximate decibel level as a B-52, Beatrice lowered her stepbrother out a bathroom window.  (source)
  • He had approximately one thousand dollars tucked in his boot.  (source)
    approximately = about
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  • When at last we left Mrs. Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge, we drove for approximately three minutes.  (source)
    approximately = about
  • 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
  • I'm just approximating.†  (source)
    approximating = estimating (almost, but not exactly)
  • He approximated the movement he had made.  (source)
    approximated = roughly duplicated
  • The rebar approximates a kataria, but it is very much heavier.†  (source)
    approximates = estimates (almost, but not exactly)
  • Your daughter says she was bitten by a green lizard, approximately one foot high, which walked upright onto the beach from the mangrove swamp?  (source)
    approximately = about
  • One region is the world of the senses, about which we can only have approximate or incomplete knowledge by using our five (approximate or incomplete) senses.  (source)
    approximate = almost, but not exact
  • It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.†  (source)
    approximating = estimating (almost, but not exactly)
  • Call it one hundred because ninety-five cries out to be approximated.  (source)
    approximated = rounded (roughly estimated)
  • As each class approximates to other classes, and intermingles with them, its members become indifferent and as strangers to one another.†  (source)
    approximates = estimates (almost, but not exactly)
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