Both Uses
approximate
in
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
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- On the 22nd of December of last year, at approximately 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 2 men entered a drugstore on 145th Street in Harlem.†
p. 22.1 *approximately = about (but not exactly)
- I looked around the counter and observed a middle-aged Black male of approximately 200 pounds.†
p. 132.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)