All 7 Uses
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Sole Survivor
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- It was green, stationary, and located approximately where the van itself was parked.†
Chpt 1.4 *approximately = about (but not exactly)
- According to the medical examiner's preliminary report, at approximately ten minutes past eight o'clock, Tuesday morning, Nora Vadance, in good health and previously thought to be of sound mind, having recently rebounded from depression over her husband's death, took her own life.†
Chpt 2.7
- The grass and a scattering of yellow wildflowers, however, could not conceal the most terrible wound in the earth: a ragged-edged, ovate depression approximately ninety yards by sixty yards.†
Chpt 3.10
- "Flight 353," Barbara said, "was tight on course and free of problems when it passed the Goodland navigational beacon, which is approximately a hundred and seventy air miles east of Colorado Springs.†
Chpt 3.10
- We'll never know for sure, because Minh Tran died in a fire at the labs shortly before six o'clock that same morning, approximately two hours after he called me in Pueblo.†
Chpt 3.10
- The older of the two, approximately forty, had enormous sad eyes and a mouth sufficiently sensuous to assure him a contract to star in Revlon lipstick advertisements.†
Chpt 4.13
- Nina, who is approximately 21-21's age and size, is playing with a hand-held electronic game called Pigs and Princes, designed for preschoolers.†
Chpt 4.16
Definitions:
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(1)
(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)