approximates
- present tense form of approximate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“We continue to believe that ARCC’s current dividend approximates the long-run underlying earnings power of our business,” CEO Kort Schnabel told listeners on last week’s earnings call.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Department of Transportation have begun exploring replacing the existing funding structure with a simpler VMT tax that better aligns use with costs and better approximates the real price of roads.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
This approximates the experience of the Project Prakash children, because they can process full color information as soon as their cataracts are removed.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2024
The suit approximates that, based on numbers revealed in OpenAI’s paper about GPT-3, Books1 would contain roughly 63,000 titles, and Books2 would include approximately 294,000 titles.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2023
Instead he approximates the accents of teachers and classmates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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