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approximate (adjective), approximate (verb)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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nearly — adv. Nearly is used with these adjectives: ↑asleep, ↑bald, ↑bankrupt, ↑black, ↑blind, ↑breathless, ↑broke, ↑circular, ↑clean, ↑closed, ↑complete, ↑constant … Collocations dictionary
