All 10 Uses
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In Cold Blood
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- 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.†
Chpt 1 *approximately = about (but not exactly)
- Approximately four hundred miles east of where Arthur Clutter then stood, two young men were sharing a booth in the Eagle Buffet, a Kansas City diner.†
Chpt 2
- He had informed Al Dewey that at approximately four o'clock on Saturday, November 14, the day of the murders, a pair of Mexicans, one mustachioed and the other pockmarked, appeared at River Valley Farm.†
Chpt 2
- The letter, written in a pleasingly legible script, was dated April 28, 1958, at which time the recipient had been imprisoned for approximately two years: Dearest Bro.†
Chpt 2
- "Wow!" he said, and then, then, summoning his talent for something very like total recall, he began an account of the long ride-the approximately ten thousand miles he and Smith had covered in the past six weeks.†
Chpt 3
- The previous day, Dr. Jones, the psychiatrist who had volunteered to examine them, had interviewed them separately for approximately two hours: at the end of the interviews, he had suggested that they each write for him an autobiographical statement, and it was the act of composing these statements that occupied the accused throughout the hours spent assembling a jury.†
Chpt 4
- Encouraged by the sympathetic promptings of Logan Green, the witness acknowledged that he had once, for approximately a year, worked as a hired hand at River Valley Farm; he went on to say that some ten years later, following his conviction on a burglary charge, he had become friendly with another imprisoned burglar, Richard Hickock, and had described to him the Clutter farm and family.†
Chpt 4
- Harrison Smith asked the witness, "Approximately how many murderers have you dealt with?"†
Chpt 4
- The elder Andrews was a prosperous farmer; he had not much money in the bank, but he owned land valued at approximately two hundred thousand dollars.†
Chpt 4
- In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)