Approaching
Approaching adjective - Being soon to appear or take place.
Virtually and approaching are semantically related In some cases you can use "Virtually" instead an adverb "Approaching".
Virtually
Virtually adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Approaching and virtually are semantically related in in effect topic. Sometimes you can use "Approaching" instead an adverb "Virtually".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- nearly and approaching
- nearly and virtually
- almost and approaching
- almost and virtually
- practically and approaching
- practically and virtually
- about and approaching
- about and virtually
- all but and approaching
- all but and virtually
- near and approaching
- near and virtually
- nearing and approaching
- nearing and virtually
Both words in one sentence
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In-universe, virtually every psyker describes the effect an approaching Tyranid fleet has on their psychic abilities as "a shadow in the Warp".
Source: Phrase Catcher - Moreover, as you're approaching the Queen, Behemoths (which only one served as a separate boss) blockade your way, forcing you to deal with them and the virtually limitless enemies.
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Faster-Than-Light Travel: Subverted: speeds approaching c are still impractical, so the skip drive drops your ship into a nearly-identical analogue universe at the location you wanted to go to, while their virtually-identical version of the same ship drops into your original universe.
Source: Literature / Old Man's War
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