All 6 Uses
approximate
in
Lucky, by Sebold
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- From approximately eight to midnight.†
Chpt 8 *approximately = about (but not exactly)
- "Approximately the same height or an inch above," I said.†
Chpt 8
- The police officers gave me an estimation of what they might weigh, a man, and I said, yes, that looked approximately correct.†
Chpt 8
- It seemed approximately close.†
Chpt 8
- This writer now realizes that the victim had been through a tremendous ordeal with no sleep for approximately 24 hours which would account for her behavior at the time.... For Lorenz, virgins were not a part of his world.†
Chpt 9
- I said—'I wish to state the man I encountered in the park is a Negro, approximately sixteen to eighteen years of age, small and muscular build of one hundred and fifty pounds, wearing dark blue sweat shirt and dark jeans with short Afro-style haircut.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)