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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
  • If the government wants to hide somebody, there's probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy.   (source)
    approximately = about
  • Call it one hundred because ninety-five cries out to be approximated.   (source)
    approximated = rounded (roughly estimated)
  • Now that Phineas was back it seemed time to start saying prayers again. After the lights went out the special quality of my silence let him know that I was saying them, and he kept quiet for approximately three minutes.   (source)
    approximately = about
  • Bayonne was a small town of about six thousand. Approximately three thousand five hundred whites; approximately two thousand five hundred colored.   (source)
    approximately = about (but not exactly)
  • The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing.   (source)
    approximately = roughly (not exactly)
  • I'd say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field when it's approximately twenty feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered.   (source)
    approximately = about (but not exactly)
  • Mealtimes: Breakfast: At 9 A.M. daily except holidays and Sundays; at approximately 11:30 A.M. on Sundays and holidays.   (source)
    approximately = about
  • "Where's the rest?" asks a bearded guy in scrubs.
    "Other driver suffering mild concussions, being treated at the scene. Parents DOA. Boy, approximately seven years old, just behind us."   (source)
  • They're approximately the same size as yearbooks, but purchased for their blank pages. Scribble books, they call them.   (source)
    approximately = about (not exactly)
  • One region is the world of the senses, about which we can only have approximate or incomplete knowledge...   (source)
    approximate = not exact
  • In some cases those dates are approximate because there is no record of exact start dates.   (source)
    approximate = about accurate, but not exact
  • At approximately 1:30 P.M. on September 21, the neighbors on Carlin Street began to hear screams from the White bungalow.   (source)
    approximately = about (but not exactly)
  • In Sweden approximately 4,000 people are under guardianship.   (source)
  • The velocity required for that was 25,500 miles per hour, or approximately seven miles per second, a distance I could visualize easily because seven miles was the distance between Coalwood and Welch.   (source)
    approximately = about
  • "Well, approximately yes." he replied, lowering his arm to the vast relief of the bug: that is, comparatively no. What I mean is, relatively maybe—in other words, roughly perhaps.   (source)
    approximately = roughly (not exactly)
  • She laughed. "Where were we?"
    "Well, my face was approximately where it is now, but your face was a lot closer to mine."   (source)
    approximately = about (but not exactly)
  • He lasts approximately five seconds before stepping backward with hands raised in surrender.   (source)
  • Well, approximately.   (source)
    approximately = roughly, but not exactly
  • "Approximately-oximately thirty days, all told," answered the goose.   (source)
    approximately = about (but not exactly)
  • You will hear testimony from Mr. Quince Lundy, the gentleman sitting right here, and the court-appointed administrator of Seth Hubbard's estate, that the estate has a value of approximately $24 million.†   (source)
  • 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
  • The dogs he trained never learned the difference between a sit and a down and a stay—they'd get the idea that they ought to remain approximately where they were, but sometimes they'd slide to the floor, or take a few steps and then sit, or sit up when they should have stayed down, or sit down when they should have stood still.†   (source)
  • We reached the Champs-Elysées approximately ten minutes after the rest of the population of Western Europe.†   (source)
  • In our world, each technology age requires approximately the same amount of time for steady, slow development.†   (source)
  • Vince had an approximate idea of the location, so he'd led a search party up into the mountains to find us.†   (source)
  • With an approximate height of eight inches and a diameter of six, they were perfectly suited to the task.†   (source)
  • Tired of Papaw's constant presence and Mamaw's "interference," Mom and Bob decided to move to Preble County, a sparsely populated part of Ohio farm country approximately thirty-five miles from Middletown.†   (source)
  • The sum was approximately the same number of U.S. dollars.†   (source)
  • On the 22nd of December of last year, at approximately 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 2 men entered a drugstore on 145th Street in Harlem.†   (source)
  • Dear Mr Potter, Further to our letter of approximately twenty-two minutes ago, the Ministry of Magic has revised its decision to destroy your wand forthwith.†   (source)
  • Clean and delicate, as large as any he had seen, it was approximately the size and shape of a turkey breast carved away from the bone.†   (source)
  • His perch overlooked the outdoor pool, where a group of staffers was approximating a game of volleyball.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Jeavons smells of soap and wears brown shoes that have approximately 60 tiny circular holes in each of them.†   (source)
  • It was meant to lie lengthwise, like a loaf of bread, and it was engraved with the approximate date of my mother's marriage to Dan: JULY, 1952 Whether Owen was unsure of the exact date, or whether it would have meant hours more of engraving—or ruined his concept of the aesthetics of the stone—I don't know.†   (source)
  • Klaus loved to read, and at approximately twelve years of age had read more books than many people read in their whole lives.†   (source)
  • I'm just approximating.†   (source)
  • All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.†   (source)
  • Approximately six stories should be underwater.†   (source)
  • He had approximately five minutes until the king of the giants busted out and destroyed them.†   (source)
  • Every step up the food chain, or "trophic pyramid," approximately 90% of energy is lost, which is why there are fewer carnivores than there are herbivores.†   (source)
  • Take into account the fact that it takes approximately two hours for the dough to double in size and that it has to rise three times before it is put into the oven.†   (source)
  • —pected that a man by the name of Logan Tanner, a Lunar doctor who worked under the reign of Queen Channary, first brought Princess Selene to Earth approximately four months after her alleged death.†   (source)
  • Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightly feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey.†   (source)
  • They might also have seen that the hands he drew out of his pockets were the size and approximate shape of spades.†   (source)
  • There were about 60,000 Jews in Krakow, approximately one quarter of the city's population.†   (source)
  • Jewish lawyers (approximately one-half of the metropolitan bar) discovered that their practice had become a 'dignified road to starvation.'†   (source)
  • I walk to the approximate site of the bakery Peeta's family owned.†   (source)
  • These slaves were listed by their first names with their approximate ages and their skills given.†   (source)
  • At this rate, the entire tribe will enter old age at approximately the same time.†   (source)
  • The day we intended to reveal it was approximately seven days after the simulation attack.†   (source)
  • It is my understanding that detention commences upon the conclusion of the final class period at approximately three thirty.†   (source)
  • Only one part of the form had given him pause: in approximately three lines, he was asked to provide a reason for seeking the change.†   (source)
  • If you look at my CT scans, there are approximately ten tumors in my liver, and the doctors told me I have three to six months of good health left.†   (source)
  • Now Kip hates Tony already because he has a name like Vauxhall and not like Smith, which Kip thinks is prettylame as a name to follow Kip, and because the 'Cuda is bright green and goes approximately the speed of light, and also because Tony has never had to work a day in his life.†   (source)
  • The flier sailed over us, banked, and landed in our path, approximately thirty meters in front of us.†   (source)
  • In the midst of supper, at approximately seven-thirty, someone rang the bell at the front door.†   (source)
  • Then we clustered dripping wet around the heap of prison dresses, holding them up, passing them about, looking for approximate fits.†   (source)
  • Casanova used the scope to approximate wind speed, which is usually a sniper's greatest weather challenge.†   (source)
  • They were fine as a hair and perfectly straight, approximately a blue million of them, running from the middle of his nose to the sides of his face, like the ridges on a black corduroy skirt sewn on the bias, with the seam running right down the middle.†   (source)
  • Like many Iraqi houses, our target had a wall around it approximately six feet tall.†   (source)
  • Or just that fuzz-grunge tip you've been working on for the last, uh, thirty-six days approximately?†   (source)
  • Approximately.†   (source)
  • And by June, he had a lot of records, the various methods used by these kingpin Taliban guys and their approximate access to TNT.†   (source)
  • A 1998 report by the U.S. Committee for Refugees estimated that approximately 200,000 people, or slightly less than a fifth of the total population of the Nuba region, were killed in what it called the Nuba genocide.†   (source)
  • This deep degree of hypothermia brings metabolic functions to a near halt, and allowed us to stop the heart and blood flow for approximately an hour without causing brain damage.†   (source)
  • It was approximately five p.m. All of a sudden, Nancy came running in to tell me Phillip had been arrested.†   (source)
  • By 1935 it had rounded the world and traveled approximately sixteen thousand miles, the longest distance officially recorded.†   (source)
  • Organizers said approximately 5,000 birds are acquired for the event.†   (source)
  • It was as though he existed within a globe with avenues radiating away in all directions ....yet this only approximated the sensation.†   (source)
  • The Edison district has a tavern for approximately every three-point-five people over the age of six, and Spokane absolutely depends on it to keep our crime rate equal to or above other US cities of our relative size.†   (source)
  • Approximately fifteen minutes later I peered through the peephole.†   (source)
  • Good God, the planning it must have taken to achieve this....A corpse reaches its peak stiffness at approximately twelve hours after death.†   (source)
  • According to the government, there are approximately a quarter of a million children under the age of eighteen, but our estimate is closer to a tenth of that.†   (source)
  • The typical American now consumes approximately three hamburgers and four orders of french fries every week.†   (source)
  • This was followed by an oral board review and written and oral psychological testing, a phase that approximately half the applicants fail.†   (source)
  • When the man did not stop to spit or wipe his forehead, each row took him approximately two minutes.†   (source)
  • Approximately a thousand Americans were living in Zaire at the time.†   (source)
  • In India, a "bride burning"—to punish a woman for an inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry—takes place approximately once every two hours, but these rarely constitute news.†   (source)
  • The distance between Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, and Holcomb, which might be called a suburb of Garden City, is approximately four hundred miles.†   (source)
  • This and a million other details completed meant that now, after six months, two days, and approximately four hours, I could relax.†   (source)
  • If Gus Caldwell had paid you for the work you performed last month, you would have earned approximately $1,500.†   (source)
  • The Count had sucked ten years from Westley this past week, and, with the life of sixty-five that was average for a Florinese male, the victim had approximately thirty years remaining, assuming he was about twenty-five when they started experimenting.†   (source)
  • He was younger than the others, approximately my own age.†   (source)
  • I've been here approximately 24 hours and I'm beginning to slowly realize I'm here.†   (source)
  • Yesterday at approximately thirteen hundred hours.†   (source)
  • It had been my favorite holiday since I was eight years old, and Trey and I had egged Old Man Hinchey's apartment door because he hadn't signed up for building-wide trick or treat—and got away with it because we were two of the approximately two hundred thousand kids in the city dressed as Spider-Man.†   (source)
  • He had been born and raised in Kent County, Rhode Island, on a farm by Potowomut Creek, near the village of Warwick, approximately sixty miles south of Boston.†   (source)
  • Another word with approximately the same meaning, pity (French,pitie; Italian,pieta; etc.), connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer.†   (source)
  • I believe I'm approximately right.†   (source)
  • The old road bent north, placing the sun approximately abeam, and I wanted to feel the heat on my face and arms.†   (source)
  • Knees, heels, and hands in approximate position, I clucked my tongue to make him go.†   (source)
  • He considered bringing it up after closing when she dragged him into her home office to show him the new chart Layla had generated that listed the time, place, approximate duration, and involved parties in all known incidents since Quinn's arrival.†   (source)
  • We ate while watching a British mystery show, during which I only understood approximately one word out of every seven, due to The thing is, I wasdetermined not to let the fat thing get me down.†   (source)
  • He was approximately the same age that I was.†   (source)
  • He held his hand flat to approximate Max's height.†   (source)
  • Working rhythmically, perspiring profusely from the intense heat of the open hearth at the other end of the room, one man grabbed a handful of dough from the vat with his left hand and tossed it onto a scale, slicing it into the approximately correct portion with a sharp blade.†   (source)
  • The minimum-security camp at Danbury housed approximately 200 women at any given time, though sometimes it climbed to a nightmarishly cramped 250.†   (source)
  • You have an approximate time?†   (source)
  • A Note to Readers NOVEMBER 22, 1963 MINEOLA, NEW YORK APPROXIMATELY 2:00 P.M. The students in Brother Carmine Diodati's freshman Religion class were startled.†   (source)
  • The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.†   (source)
  • The incredibly wealthy, fabulous to look at, sexily mysterious Roarke who owns approximately twenty-eight percent of the world, and its satellites?†   (source)
  • After posing for approximately five bajillion pictures, Vlad helped Meredith with her coat, and they moved out the door and down the sidewalk to the car.†   (source)
  • Still at a trot, Justin slid a pearl-handled sword from its scabbard, leaned far forward, flipped the blade over his head in a movement that approximated a figure eight, and then reined his horse in.†   (source)
  • Just make sure they're all approximately the same depth, or else the logs won't lock into place.†   (source)
  • In one example ("They had to jump like a meter away from the actual acid"), like appeared to convey the meaning of approximately.†   (source)
  • Drill or punch two holes (approximately one-quarter inch in diameter) on opposite sides of the cup .†   (source)
  • Approximately 800 mills of amperage at durations of 0.5 to 1.5 seconds had been applied on twenty-eight consecutive occasions, in a process known technologically as "Annihilation ECS."†   (source)
  • "I need assistance," said Bourne, continuing with the approximate words Marie had told him to use.†   (source)
  • The sale of slaves had been forbidden in 1795, and when the last of the approximately forty slaves left in the state died, so would slavery.†   (source)
  • Approximate location of Julia Lemos's home†   (source)
  • A rally washeld, after which the armed men went on a rampage, murdering approximately thirty people in a dreadful and grisly attack.†   (source)
  • This takes into account a slight rise in wholesale prices on Terra, 'slight' because the Authority now sells at approximately the free market price.†   (source)
  • They'd have to hide there all day, because going home before the end of school would bring approximately the same penalty from their fathers as arriving at school late would bring from their teachers.†   (source)
  • I figured approximately six foot four inches.†   (source)
  • The spacious offices of this firm, in which the attorney Giuliani was the principal partner, looked over Rome as if to govern it, and they were remarkably serene, except for the office of the scribes, where pens scratched across paper in a sound that approximated that of a granary invaded by mice, or a coop of a hundred scratching chickens.†   (source)
  • "Look, bud," said Bertram Scudder, his eyeballs focused approximately in the direction of Philip, "whether you like it or not, the Equalization of Opportunity Bill represents a great step forward."†   (source)
  • And though the implementation will inevitably be approximate and debatable, and though totalitarianism or technocratic government can obtain some swift successes, in the end, only a democracy can enlist a people's energies on a sustained and renewable basis.†   (source)
  • That means the flight will take approximately two hours and twenty minutes.†   (source)
  • At approximately 11:00 p.m. that night, officers banged on the door of a sleeping family.†   (source)
  • 'Approximately eight and a half hours from now.†   (source)
  • Using a jutting rock overhang as a guidepost, he approximated the exact center of the pool.†   (source)
  • Once you have caught up on your rest, that will leave you approximately ....three days to end the siege.†   (source)
  • It was green, stationary, and located approximately where the van itself was parked.†   (source)
  • "We need to get an approximate size on this thing," he said, and she nodded.†   (source)
  • Approximately two billion people were inside, all hollering so they could be heard over the irritating holiday (buy-our-stuff) music.†   (source)
  • Place fillets in fryer and deep-fry for approximately 7 to 8 minutes until well-done.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tester was found at approximately 1:00 p.m. that afternoon in his hotel room.†   (source)
  • The Union position was approximately three miles in length, or so it seemed from here.†   (source)
  • This cannot be proven, but consider this: each proposed confederacy is approximately the size of the British island, which has a population of eight million.†   (source)
  • The approximately forty-five million daughters all inherited it.†   (source)
  • Instead, I was sure, they smacked of the excess and privilege of a sclerotic, purulent culture, the very forces that our nation's people and will were struggling against, from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia to where we were posted at the time, in the foothill country of old Burma, approximately 125 kilometers from the outskirts of Rangoon.†   (source)
  • Eleanor Markey, 18, a senior at Bartlett High School and member of the student congress, lost control of her car on A Street Bridge at approximately 12:45 a.m. April 5.†   (source)
  • Raqqa was approximately a hundred miles from the Iraqi border—the old border, she quickly reminded herself.†   (source)
  • So when I arrived to work on Monday, the approximately thirty men, some white and some part-Cherokee, knew more about me than a ten-page résumé could have told.†   (source)
  • The stage is empty save for two cloaked figures sprawled on the ground in the approximate positions last held by the dead SPIES.†   (source)
  • She was a small, delicately formed woman who weighed approximately as much as her husband's legs.†   (source)
  • holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown but time will tell fades away I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead lossper head since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch fourounce per head approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara ina word for reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more much more grave that in the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is more much more grave that i†   (source)
  • It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.†   (source)
  • He asked what he owed, and Dr. Ferguson said the records were at his office, but he gave an approximate figure.†   (source)
  • She knew then approximately what he was talking about, but to narrow it said, "Where," again.†   (source)
  • The mammoth prints before me, combined as they were with a forty-inch stride, suggested that the beast I was proposing to pursue was built on approximately the scale of a grizzly bear.†   (source)
  • Approximately.†   (source)
  • Approximately a half year later, Yama-Dharma departed Khaipur.†   (source)
  • He paused and made what seemed to approximate a leer.†   (source)
  • So his eyes must be approximately similar to ours in spectral range.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: They can only calculate approximately.†   (source)
  • in the direction of Snake Creek on the South side of the church then he fell to the ground and rolled approximately ten feet down the bank, rolling over six or seven times.†   (source)
  • They watched him as he approached, and he tried not to look at them and to approximate the swagger with which they walked.†   (source)
  • First, the background, Mr. Reich: There are approximately one hundred thousand (100,000) 3rd Class Espers in the Esper Guild.†   (source)
  • Dr Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: 'Da ist nichts zu machen.'   (source)
    approximately = about (but not exactly)
  • He blundered so without his glasses that he took a pair off the face of a wounded nurse, and although they only approximately compensated for the errors of his vision, they were better than nothing.   (source)
  • According to my math, that's approximately twenty years.†   (source)
  • The ground sniper sticking his rifle over the wall, approximately 100 to 150 yards away, aimed his scope at the Rangers in my convoy.†   (source)
  • The urgent issue, the important thing, at that moment, was to get One Esk moving because in approximately half a second no amount of filtering I could do would hide the strength of its reaction and I really needed to tell the captain what had happened and I couldn't remember Mianaai's enemy—Mianaai herself—laying down the orders I knew she had laid on me and why couldn't One Esk see how important it was, we weren't ready to move openly yet and I'd lost officers before and who was One Esk anyway except me, myself, and Lieutenant Awn was dead and she had said, I should have died rather than obey you.†   (source)
  • Natalie had taken the GED test approximately a dozen times and was definitely way past due to pass it.†   (source)
  • We arrived at our new unit hours later, approximately twenty exhausted women who were issued sheets, pajamas, and small packets of hygienic necessities and ushered into a triangular cavern lined with two tiers of cells.†   (source)
  • Assumption: that both arms are approximately the same length.†   (source)
  • Four of the holes made an approximate square, and then there were five holes inside the square.†   (source)
  • But the real answer is that the height of the stack would approximate the distance to the sun.†   (source)
  • The sailboat had reached the approximate middle of the lake.†   (source)
  • Something at least approximating sense came back into his terrified, maddened gaze.†   (source)
  • The first is an engraved stone pyramid, approximately one foot tall.†   (source)
  • I looked around the counter and observed a middle-aged Black male of approximately 200 pounds.†   (source)
  • I lowered myself over the cliff edge at approximately 0730 hours yesterday morning.†   (source)
  • And I can only approximate the position.†   (source)
  • It contained approximately 8 cubic meters of air.†   (source)
  • After a while Nelson righted his chair and sat down approximately four feet away from me.†   (source)
  • Not too big," I said, and I boxed my hands to show him the approximate size of the radio.†   (source)
  • The rebar approximates a kataria, but it is very much heavier.†   (source)
  • I'm not going to think about that for approximately six and a half more years.†   (source)
  • He reported our approximate position, the strength of our enemy, and how serious the situation was.†   (source)
  • The ships knew the approximate direction of their target but not its distance.†   (source)
  • The extensive head wounds measured approximately 16 inches in circumference.†   (source)
  • We pulled around some rolling desk chairs and sat in an approximate circle.†   (source)
  • My father and his siblings have had to rely on one another's memories to approximate their ages.†   (source)
  • EDDIE AND I meet outside the door to Will's classroom at approximately three thirty.†   (source)
  • The second is a smaller, cube-shaped package, approximately two inches tall.†   (source)
  • Approximately twelve million possibilities.†   (source)
  • You can only make your best approximate calculation.†   (source)
  • Since then I've done approximately 30 others.†   (source)
  • Next, we dug a pit approximately 6'X6' wide and 5' deep.†   (source)
  • We reached the top approximately one hour before daylight.†   (source)
  • "Uh, I have an approximate idea of the intersection," I say.†   (source)
  • This gave us approximately 104 weekends to see everything there was to see in California.†   (source)
  • Or else you could just look at the sun and know the approximate time.†   (source)
  • Just get the approximate meaning across.†   (source)
  • We have approximately a day left in our drive.†   (source)
  • It will take me approximately two minutes to acquire a sidearm.†   (source)
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