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Recent Examples of approximation
After all, among all the disciplines in the world, science is the one most devoted to creating our best approximation of truthful reality.
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Big Think,
6 May 2026
Hearing Tina Fey or Sarah Silverman deliver a joke in their uniquely perfect way is so much better than doing an approximation in my head.
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Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
Gordon is currently using a soy protein for both the chicken and the links, and both offered pretty good textural approximation.
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Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
The institute likes spring fire testing at its site about halfway between Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina, because while summer temperatures in the South can nearly match those in the fire-prone West, the swampy humidity in July is a bad approximation to a mountain canyon.
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ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Big Think,
6 May 2026
Hearing Tina Fey or Sarah Silverman deliver a joke in their uniquely perfect way is so much better than doing an approximation in my head.
—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
Gordon is currently using a soy protein for both the chicken and the links, and both offered pretty good textural approximation.
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Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
The institute likes spring fire testing at its site about halfway between Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina, because while summer temperatures in the South can nearly match those in the fire-prone West, the swampy humidity in July is a bad approximation to a mountain canyon.
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ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximation
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The additional diamonds have been removed, while the band was replaced with a pavé version.
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The previous version of the bill had garnered strong bipartisan support in the 80-person Assembly, passing out of the chamber with 76 votes in favor of it.
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The complaint accuses Cal-Maine, Hickman's and Versova of conspiring to submit bids to influence egg price quotations, creating the impression there was a greater demand than there actually was.
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Set in the pink of a romantic sunset was an impression of Buraq, the steed that had carried the Prophet to heaven and back and shown him the wonders of Paradise.
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This is not only devastating because Aang appears fatally injured, but because if an Avatar dies in the Avatar State, the entire cycle of Avatar reincarnation ceases and the earth’s balance is forever lost.
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The backstory Born holy to an order of Franciscan nuns, this 15th-century building settled into private hands before its 1993 reincarnation as Four Seasons’ first continental European outpost.
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“Approximation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximation. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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