approx.
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approximate.
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approximately.
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Example Sentences
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“I-39 from Normal to Minonk will be closed for approx. 12 hours due to multiple crashes involving over 100 vehicles,” Illinois State Police tweeted late Thursday.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Crews are responding to numerous outage events throughout our service area affecting approx. 36,000 customers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
“His name is Mike Tucker, 66 yrs old, approx. 5’9,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2017
On a lighter note, there’s also an advert for Paul Sturrock’s Video Library and Showroom ‘with approx. 700 titles in both Beta and VHS formats’.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2016
In end, of approx. fifty houses, thirty-nine had.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2012
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