Sentence examples for creative approximation from inspiring English sources

A simulation may be an excellent predictive tool for the natural world, but when it goes wrong one may have no idea why, since its entailment structure is largely a work of creative approximation.

Nothing is heated above a hundred and eighteen degrees Fahrenheit — to preserve beneficial enzymes — and food dehydrators and processors are used to produce creative approximations of pasta, beans, and cheese.

Now, theoretically I know that all recipes are approximations, that the creative cook will each time make adjustments according to the quality and availability of ingredients, that nothing is set in stone (except malt vinegar mixed with hot molten sugar), and so on and so on.

(Their approximation: "mischievous mating").

(That is an approximation).

To a first approximation, yes.

"Very creative".

It was an approximation of sobbing.

Creative thinker.

Right creative.

But an approximation can be made.