The adverb "approximately" appears throughout literature as a versatile qualifier that signals estimations or approximations rather than exact values. In historical narratives and scholarly works, it softens the precision of dates, quantities, or measures—such as an estimated birth date [1], a rough count of men [2], or a near-accurate geographical measure [3]. In scientific and technical texts, it tempers numerical data, from timber estimates in forestry [4] and percentages in agricultural reports [5] to calculations in mathematics [6]. Even in creative and literary writing, "approximately" helps evoke a sense of realistic imprecision, whether describing the measured cadence of a poem [7] or the general character of personal traits and actions [8]. Thus, the word becomes a valuable tool for authors to balance factual rigor with the inherent uncertainties of measurement and interpretation.