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Six example sentences with approximate, each labelled with its topic.
The map gave only approximate distances between the villages, so we added an extra hour to every leg.
Travel
Grandmother's recipe listed approximate amounts for the spices, so each batch of curry tasted slightly different from the last.
Cooking
Early estimates of the comet's mass were approximate, and later radar measurements shifted the figure by nearly twelve percent.
Science
The chronicle gives only an approximate date for the fire, somewhere in the two years after the old king died.
History
The quoted price is approximate until the market opens, and the final figure can move by a few cents.
Finance
The early sketches show approximate room sizes, and the real dimensions were fixed only once the site was surveyed.
Architecture
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