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Roughly

Roughly adverb - Close to but not exactly.
Usage example: roughly 80% of the country's population is of that faith
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Say and roughly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Say" instead an adverb "Roughly".
Nearby Words: rough, roughage

Say

Say adverb - Close to but not exactly.
Usage example: a person consumes, say, 2000 calories a day
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Roughly and say are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Roughly" instead an adverb "Say".
Nearby Word: saying
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  • Evil Phone Roughly half the time, the call is not from who she thought it would be (instead being, say, someone who wants to switch her long distance or some equivalent of a Cat Scare).
    Source: Evil Phone
  • They don't understand love or friendship—the closest they can get to saying they like someone is to say that the person has "chanokhia" (which is roughly equivalent to "virtue" or "artistry").
    Source: Literature / Hunter of Worlds
  • Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure Our Dumb World, an atlas by the Onion, describes Rhode Island as being "roughly the size of one Rhode Island", which is to say: about 1/3 the size of Puerto Rico, or 76 times smaller than Portugal.
    Source: Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
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