Betty White

It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

American Actress

Terry Pratchett

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

English Author

Anne Michaels

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Canadian Poet

Richard P. Feynman

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

American Physicist

Rachel Kushner

Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

American Writer

Noam Chomsky

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

American Activist

Sigmund Freud

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Austrian Psychologist

Christian Nestell Bovee

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

American Author

Gian Carlo Menotti

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Italian Composer

Michael Cunningham

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

Use 'approximate' when precision isn't required and minor errors are acceptable.

Not Exact

'Approximate' suggests a rough estimation, often acceptable in planning stages.

Ballpark Figure

Use 'approximate' for initial quotes or estimates that might change later.

Initial Estimates

To 'approximate' means making a guess that aims to be close to the actual number.

Close Estimate

Use 'approximate' in informal situations when a precise number is not needed.

Informal Guesswork

When approximating, it's common to round up or down to a figure that's easier to use.

Round Figures

'Approximate' indicates something is close in quality, but not an exact replica.

Similarity Not Copy

Use 'approximate' to express that something resembles another in a general way.

Conveys Impression

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The Survival of the Sea...

 it just means you cannot die. But it doesn't guarantee what condition you'll be alive in. Look at your body and count how many scars you have. If you have made this many permanent scars within your life, imagine how much damage you would have if you were one thousand years old! Now, there are approximately

If superpowers were...

 supported by a huge media campaign we invited the country to download a specifically designed phone app after collecting information on things like age occupation and overall health the app tracks people's approximate movements and lets them record the sort of social information that we know is

How data can predict the...

 Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common. We'll eventually zoom out of the blazar system to show its approximate relationship to the larger galactic context.

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 Her birth revolutionized the field of reproductive medicine. Given that approximately one in eight heterosexual couples has difficulty conceiving, and that homosexual couples and single parents often need clinical help to make a baby,

How in vitro fertilizatio...

 so the mixture approximates to fresh air so these spires and turrets are key elements in an air conditioning system of a near perfect mansion that has start walls to protect its inhabitants from the elements and from their enemies

Fascinating Termite...

 Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics.

What makes a poem … a...

 approximately the length of a human's entire life. This orbit causes each season of Uranus to last that much longer. Theoretically, a human living on Uranus would experience the four seasons only once,

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 Approximately 7 million people around the world die from heart attacks every year, and cardiovascular disease, which causes heart attacks and other problems like strokes, is the world's leading killer.

What happens during a...

 or spooky action at a distance. He decided that quantum mechanics must be incomplete, a mere approximation of a deeper reality in which both particles have predetermined states that are hidden from us.