Sentence examples for approximating from inspiring English sources

After several days of outrage and the loss of some important advertisers on his radio show, Limbaugh issued something approximating an apology.

No stranger to political debate, Biden's time as vice president has seen him transformed in the public eye from veteran senator to something approximating the Onion's bumbling, unseemly caricature.

Today's AI produces the semblance of intelligence through brute number-crunching force, without any great interest in approximating how minds equip humans with autonomy, interests and desires.

"They worked as paid employees work, providing an immediate advantage to their employer…They received nothing approximating the education they would receive in an academic setting or vocational school," the judge wrote.More than 30 similar lawsuits have been brought in America against firms including Sony, NBC, the Donna Karan fashion label and the Pittsburgh Power football team.

The one part of the United States that has something approximating a proper free market in electricity, Texas, is also keener than any other state on deploying the turbines.

Third, a selective search in a number of published collections of Khomeini's statements and speeches (not Taheri's non-existent volume but other books) for the year Taheri alleges Khomeini made these remarks turned up nothing even approximating Taheri's "quotation".

But shown a diagram approximating this structure, one of the firm's main regulators admits his agency doesn't fully understand the control chain.

This is a piece of film cut to a specified size and shape usually approximating a library catalog card but available in more than one size (although the most favoured size is 5 by 3 inches [8 by 13 centimetres]).

Designers use a variety of fitting forms for clothing, shoe lasts for footwear, and hat blocks for headwear, approximating human anatomical dimensions.

The Government of Ireland Act (1920) split Ireland into two self-governing areas, both with devolved powers approximating to Home Rule.

On a global scale, this natural endowment covers a small area approximating that of the U.S. state of Oregon or the African country of Guinea and its internal diversity, accompanied by rapid changes of often beautiful scenery, may convey to visitors from larger countries a striking sense of compactness and consolidation.