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ap·proach·ing

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  1. approach, approachingnoun

    the event of one object coming closer to another

    Synonyms:
    approach, attack, advance, plan of attack, glide path, feeler, coming, access, glide slope, overture, approach path, approach shot

    Antonyms:
    present(a), past

  2. approach, approaching, comingnoun

    the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

    "the approach of winter"

    Synonyms:
    climax, coming, feeler, advent, approach shot, glide path, glide slope, approach, approach path, orgasm, sexual climax, advance, attack, overture, access, plan of attack

    Antonyms:
    present(a), past

  3. approach, approaching, comingadjective

    the act of drawing spatially closer to something

    "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"

    Synonyms:
    climax, coming, feeler, advent, approach shot, glide path, glide slope, approach, approach path, orgasm, sexual climax, advance, attack, overture, access, plan of attack

    Antonyms:
    past, present(a)

  4. approaching, coming(a), forthcoming, upcomingadjective

    of the relatively near future

    "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"

    Antonyms:
    present(a), past

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  1. List of paraphrases for "approaching":

    nearing, approach, nears

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  1. Brett McGurk:

    I think the Iranians believe they have some eastward option with Russia and China in which they can circumvent the pressure of sanctions, and that is just wrong. And so I think we are approaching the talks at the end of November as a pretty united front with the P5 +1.

  2. Pete Buttigieg:

    It threatens the well-being of every community. I am determined to bring about a day when a white person driving a vehicle in and a black person driving a vehicle, when they see a police officer approaching, feels the same thing, not of fear, but of safety. I am going to bring about that very thing.

  3. Steve Warren:

    The fight for Fallujah is ongoing. Right now the Iraqi Security Forces are approaching Fallujah from three directions, essentially, they encircle the city, almost like a boa constrictor, and they will then squeeze in closer and closer into that city until eventually they are able to finally clear it, as we saw in Ramadi.

  4. Fox News contributor Guy Benson:

    Now consider how these two cases have been treated by the media, there is nothing even approaching a consistent standard here. The bias is just right out there in the open, for all to see. Utterly undeniable.

  5. Anthony Fauci:

    I think we can't deny that fact, if you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people globally died, that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with this, but it does have the makings of, the possibility of... approaching that in seriousness.


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