Approximation used in a sentence

Approximation in a sentence as a noun

"Trance" music podcasts are a great approximation for this.

Hiya, freelancer on HN: to a first approximation, you don't charge enough.

We don't pay for what we use, but rather some awkward approximation based on what they think consumers will accept charges for.

My rough approximation of their annual ad revenue is "it would make for a pretty nice teacher's pension in any state.

To a limited approximation you can assume everyone on the internet is both.

Wikipedia says that it's between 100 and 250 but most people use 150 as a reasonable approximation.

The rest, to a first approximation, run their recruiting programs based on measurements of reproductive organs.

Since the depth of objects only changes relatively when you look around, it's usually a pretty good approximation of "perfect" behavior.

"Also, when you get down to brass tacks, if Bob has zero engagement with the product, Bob will not pay for the product, and thus the downside risk of annoying Bob is to a first approximation zero.

It is important to know that these are abstract color models intended to produce an approximation that is almost always good enough for most everyday usage by non-specialists.

"You'll be working with astronomically smart people who use crystalline cohomology to obtain the best polynomial time approximation algorithms for intractable problems.

What I've been told is that when you reduce the complicated aspects of what is known into a workable set of approximations, for specific use cases, you get something very similar to ... wait for it ...Artistic color wheels and paint mixing systems.