All 14 Uses of

approach

in

Just Listen

She was instead a born stoic, extremely logical, her entire approach to life one of figuring out problems, stating solutions, and moving on.
Chpt 4

approach = technique (way of doing something)

"Dr. Hammond," my mom said, and this time, Whitney rolled her eyes at his name, "says that this woman, Moira Bell, has had great success with many of his patients because she takes a different approach."
Chpt 9 *

approach = route (way to achieving something)

While my dad chose to take a hands-off approach to us working-as he did to everything even vaguely girly, from Tampax to broken hearts-my mother thrived on it.†
Chpt 2

A girl carrying a piece of poster board walked past me, then slowed as she approached him, and I watched her as she carefully stepped over his feet, like Jack from "Jack in the Beanstalk" creeping past the sleeping giant.†
Chpt 4

Looking back, maybe if I had approached Clarke again, we could have worked things out.†
Chpt 4

Above the movement, I could hear the whirring of the security guard approaching on his golf cart.†
Chpt 4

"So where do you live?" he asked me, switching lanes as we approached a stoplight.†
Chpt 5

"Well," he said as we approached another stop sign, "that's good to know, I guess."†
Chpt 5

But he was also hard to read, the kind of guy who is just attractive enough that a warm personality is almost required to make him approachable.†
Chpt 6

"Will could have any girl he wanted," she said, slowing down a bit as we approached a row of houses on the left.†
Chpt 6 *

But this time as we approached each other, I could feel her staring at me, willing me to turn my head, pulling my gaze in her direction.†
Chpt 12

As I approached, the first thing I saw was Rolly at the controls in the little room adjacent to it; he had on a bright green T-shirt and a baseball hat turned backwards, his headphones over it.†
Chpt 18

Definitions:

(1) (approach as in: approached the city)
to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
(2) (approach as in: use the best approach)
a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
(3) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal)
to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely (and typically only in classic literature), the phrase nearest approach to as used in "her nearest approach to an apology" or "her nearest approach to a smile" typically means that "something is as close to something else as it ever gets." "As near an approach to" can have a similar meaning.