Approximately
Approximately adverb - Close to but not exactly.
Necessarily and approximately are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Necessarily" instead an adverb "Approximately".
Necessarily
Necessarily adverb - Because of necessity.
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Synonyms for Necessarily
Approximately and necessarily are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Approximately" instead an adverb "Necessarily".
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- In Spite of a Nail is necessarily in effect, in order to keep the setting approximately similar to the real world—indeed, sometimes the histories of these settings are more different from reality than their presents.
Source: Never Was This Universe -
In Fallen London, approximately ten percent of the population of London are soulless, generally having either sold it - not necessarily for a good price or in a fair deal - or had it stolen by a spirifer (a sort of soul-poacher).
Source: The Soulless
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