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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
approximate .
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Examples
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Our course grades would be determined primarily by how closely our team's contract terms approximated those of actual recent collective bargaining agreements.
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Impatience and a hint of what lay beneath his bland exterior lent an ugly edge to tr'Annhwi's words before he recovered himself and twisted his mouth into an expression that approximated a smile.
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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Impatience and a hint of what lay beneath his bland exterior lent an ugly edge to tr'Annhwi's words before he recovered himself and twisted his mouth into an expression that approximated a smile.
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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Thus, the reactions to Socialism were largely focused on its oddities: young children on a boat who speak in abstract aphorisms, other shots narrated by zoo animals — all of which would be easier to comprehend if they were subtitled in full, instead of "approximated" in what Godard calls the fragmented "Navajo English" of old Westerns.
Out of Breath 2010
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I realize the result can be "approximated" by totaling the other figures, say, male and female.
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I realize the result can be "approximated" by totaling the other figures, say, male and female.
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Impatience and a hint of what lay beneath his bland exterior lent an ugly edge to tr’Annhwi’s words before he recovered himself and twisted his mouth into an expression that approximated a smile.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Impatience and a hint of what lay beneath his bland exterior lent an ugly edge to tr’Annhwi’s words before he recovered himself and twisted his mouth into an expression that approximated a smile.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Impatience and a hint of what lay beneath his bland exterior lent an ugly edge to tr’Annhwi’s words before he recovered himself and twisted his mouth into an expression that approximated a smile.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Of this group of aged men and boys that moved the luggage along I saw only one, called Henry, a youth of sixteen, who approximated in the slightest what I had conceived all sailors to be like.
CHAPTER II 2010
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