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For the first time, he was on his own with his studies, and he bent to them with the spirit of independence and intense determination that were to characterize much of his whole approach to life.†
Subsection 1.1.2 *

approach = technique (way of doing something)
It had been two weeks now since she had seen the British fleet sail out of Boston, and she viewed the approach of spring very differently than she had only a month before.†
Subsection 1.2.2

approach = coming
When night approached, the wind died away…
Subsection 2.4.2 *

approached = got near
What, in fact, was most interesting, as expressed repeatedly in his diary and private correspondence—and what seems to have struck him as most unexpected—was how very much about France he found appealing, how much he did truly love about the French and their approach to life.†
Subsection 2.4.3

approach = technique (way of doing something)
I find in my own breast a sympathetic power always operating upon the near approach of letters from my dearest friend.†
Subsection 2.5.2

approach = coming
"Winter makes its approaches fast," she had written to John in November.†
Subsection 1.1.1
By 1776 its population was approaching 30,000.†
Subsection 1.2.1
Delegates to Congress were frequently approached by beggars and, as in every city of the time, the scars and mutilations of disease and war were not uncommon among the passing crowds.†
Subsection 1.2.1
Oliver Wolcott, Deane's fellow delegate from Connecticut, sensed the approach of a moment that could "decide the fate of this country.†
Subsection 1.2.2
He suffered "feverous heats by day and sweats by night," an infallible symptom, he was sure, of an approaching collapse.†
Subsection 1.3.2
The timing, the wording, the spirit of the Declaration, the plan of confederation, the approach to treaties, the winning of the war, were all, he saw, essential to achieving the large, overriding goal of an independent America.†
Subsection 1.3.2
Days later, approaching a French brig, Tucker ordered a signal shot fired.†
Subsection 2.4.2
For there was a physical quality in us resembling the power of electricity or of the magnet, by which when a pair approached within striking distance they flew together ....like two objects in an electrical experiment.†
Subsection 2.4.3
What most distressed Adams about Franklin was his approach with Vergennes.†
Subsection 2.4.3
On the approach to Amsterdam that evening the giant canvas sails of immense windmills turned ceaselessly on all sides, a spectacle such as they had never seen.†
Subsection 2.5.2
"I am wholly unconscious of giving you pain in this way since your late absence," she wrote as the second winter approached.†
Subsection 2.5.2
I— le himself would later say that excessive fatigue and anxiety concerning the state of his affairs in Holland, as well as the "unwholesome damps of the night," had brought him as "near to death as any man ever approached without being grasped in his arms."†
Subsection 2.5.2
He wrote immediately to Robert Livingston to say he would rather resign than follow such instructions, and that he and Jay were "perfectly agreed" in their approach to the French.†
Subsection 2.5.3
Approaching Monticello by horseback afterward, an officer from Rochambeau's army, the Marquis de Chastellux, saw the great house "shining alone" on its summit, and described how, arriving on top, he found the "Sage" of Monticello wholly "retired from the world and public business."†
Subsection 2.6.3
OF THE TIME S when Adams felt himself uncomfortably alone at center stage, there were few to compare to the afternoon in London, when at the end of a short ride through the rain with Lord Carmarthen in his carriage, they approached the arched gatehouse at St. James's Palace.†
Subsection 2.7.1
Approached by the representative of a group known as His Majesty's Royal Bell Ringers, who asked that he share some of his "honorable bounty" and said two guineas were customary, Adams gave the man one guinea and said he would look into what was customary.†
Subsection 2.7.1
Set in a rolling sweep of land that lent a feeling of even grander scale, the estate comprised approximately 400 acres and was approached through a tremendous Corinthian arch.†
Subsection 2.7.2
The one visitor known to have recorded a firsthand impression of Adams that fall of 1788 found him quite at peace with life and surprisingly approachable.†
Subsection 3.8.1
Winter approached, and still Adams remained silent on politics.†
Subsection 3.8.1
And so it was as he approached the untried office of Vice President.†
Subsection 3.8.2
Ten-year-old Charles Francis, with no memory of his grandparents, approached with caution.†
Subsection 3.12.1

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(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.

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