as in roughly
close to but not exactly
it takes approximately three hours to drive to Dallas
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Recent Examples of approximately
The Police Department submitted its new budget request in October 2025, with a total cost hitting approximately $417 million.
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Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2026
As of last September, fragrance generated close to approximately $6 billion—and that's before the holiday season.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
Plant the seeds ¼ inch deep in a potting mix approximately six weeks before the last frost date in your area.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2026
Declining vaccination rates have left approximately 300,000 kindergarteners unprotected from measles infection.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2026
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Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2026
As of last September, fragrance generated close to approximately $6 billion—and that's before the holiday season.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
Plant the seeds ¼ inch deep in a potting mix approximately six weeks before the last frost date in your area.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2026
Declining vaccination rates have left approximately 300,000 kindergarteners unprotected from measles infection.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximately
Adverb
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The bricks in the entryway wall could roughly indicate height.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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The appeals court panel had halted the district court’s ruling in October 2024 pending appeal, roughly two weeks after the lower court had struck down Texas’s ballot harvesting ban.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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By Thursday, investigators were looking for a man who’s about five feet nine or five feet ten, of average build.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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El Salvador has received about 250 Venezuelan nationals in March last year, while the other nations received far fewer deportees, ranging from 29 sent to Equatorial Guinea to none sent to Palau so far, according to the report.—
STEPHEN GROVES,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Back then, the district would hire teachers in the first semester and wait to see how students moved around before extending their contracts to a full year.—
Carley Lanich,
IndyStar,
10 Feb. 2026
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While the mouse brain contains about 100 million cells, the human brain has around 170 billion, and that menagerie is still undergoing genetic analysis.—
Amber Dance,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Approximately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximately. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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