Approaching
Approaching adjective - Being soon to appear or take place.
Similar to and approaching are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Similar to" instead an adverb "Approaching".
Similar to
Approaching and similar to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Approaching" instead an adverb phrase "Similar to".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Which is eerily similar to a scene in Farscape where Mitchell actor Ben Browder made a similar "easy money" bet with D'argo about the approaching shuttle having Scorpius aboard.
Source: Deadpan Snarker / Live-Action TV -
In Retribution, it's activated simply by approaching the object you wish to use as cover, while Burning Skies uses a "crouch and pop out to shoot" mechanic similar to Killzone.
Source: Video Game / Resistance -
So "approaching middle age" in Valdemar would be similar to what we mean with "middle age" in our world with modern medicine, and Elspeth should be a teenager or young adult in "Arrows of the Queeen", unless Jadus did go to war at the ripe age of approximately 55.
Source: Writers Cannot Do Math
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