All 8 Uses
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The Black Widow
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- He was clean-shaven, approximately five foot ten inches in height, and was wearing a billed cap and sunglasses.†
p. 15.6approximately = about (but not exactly)
- Mikhail reckoned that approximately ten percent of the staff would have killed him if informed of his true identity and occupation.†
p. 30.2
- The driver of the van was a woman, approximately thirty years of age, blond hair, long legs, narrow hips, blue jeans, a hooded sweatshirt, a fleece vest.†
p. 83.7
- In the Netherlands, however, Dutch authorities had no interest in apportioning blame, for they were far too busy searching for survivors amid the rubble, and for the woman, approximately thirty years of age, blond hair, long legs, narrow hips, blue jeans, hooded sweatshirt, fleece vest, who had driven the bomb van into the market.†
p. 85.5
- Later that day the AIVD, the Dutch security and intelligence service, confirmed that Margreet Janssen had traveled to Syria eighteen months previously, had remained there for approximately six months, and had been allowed to return to the Netherlands after convincing the Dutch authorities that she had renounced her ties to ISIS and the global jihadist movement.†
p. 85.9
- Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, or Saladin, was born into a prominent family of Kurds, in the town of Tikrit, in approximately 1138.†
p. 109.2
- Approximately twenty miles separate the banlieue of Aubervilliers from the village of Seraincourt, but they are a world apart.†
p. 184.5
- Raqqa was approximately a hundred miles from the Iraqi border—the old border, she quickly reminded herself.†
p. 275.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)