approximate
adjective
near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.
is approximating
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present progressiveof approximate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It has been democratised and is approximating to the type of Napoleon’s armies or Cromwell’s Ironsides.
From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham
But in the concrete evolution which, we may hope, is approximating towards this result, the creeds current among mankind have been determined by the social conditions as well as helped to determine them.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
Now if she were not human—if she were merely a Divine Society, a far-off city in the heavens, a future distant ideal to which human society is approximating, there would be no conflict at all.
From Paradoxes of Catholicism by Robert Hugh Benson
By Adolescence we understand the time during which the individual is approximating to the adult type, puberty having been already accomplished.
From Youth and Sex by Mary Scharlieb
