All 5 Uses

approach
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We Beat the Street
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It took me some time to get used to this more peaceful approach, but once I did, I actually liked it.
Chpt 2 *

approach = technique (way of doing something)
A police officer approached the cell.
Chpt 7 *

approached = moved toward
We try very hard to be culturally diverse in our approach.
Chpt 11

approach = technique (way of doing something)
A police officer approached them.†
Chpt 13
After they had enough money to work with, Rameck, George, and Sampson approached several elementary schools in Newark to try to arrange student field trips to the campus.†
Chpt 17

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.