Roughly and Set to

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Roughly adverb - Close to but not exactly.

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Set to and roughly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set to" instead an adverb "Roughly".

Nearby Words: rough, roughage

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Roughly and set to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Roughly" instead an adverb "Set to".

And then a little later, Altamont, roughly six hours of skull-cracking brutality set to music.

Source: The '60s
Slow Motion: The movie gives us a nice slo-mo of the tank shell piercing Kim Jong-un's helicopter set to the song "Firework." Small Girl, Big Gun: Director of Communications Sook takes out an RPD machine gun that's roughly two-thirds as big as she is and opens up on a group of North Korean soldiers.

Source: Film / The Interview
The bridges Leslie Fish writes are nearly always set to roughly the same tune as one verse plus the chorus, and are placed between the penultimate and last verse.

Source: Signature Style / Music

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