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Princeton's WordNet

  1. approach, approachingnoun

    the event of one object coming closer to another

  2. approach, approaching, comingnoun

    the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

    "the approach of winter"

  3. approach, approaching, comingadjective

    the act of drawing spatially closer to something

    "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"

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

    of the relatively near future

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

Wiktionary

  1. approachingadverb

    Nearly.

  2. approachingadjective

    That approaches or approach.

    the approaching armies

Wikipedia

  1. Approaching

    Approaching is the fourth live album by contemporary classical chamber orchestra Symphony Number One. The album was released on November 3, 2017 and features the music of Nicholas Bentz, Martha Horst, and Hangrui Zhang. The majority of the disk is taken up by Nicholas Bentz’s work Approaching Eternity.

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  1. approaching

    Approaching refers to the act of moving closer or nearer to something or someone in terms of physical distance, time, or quality. It can also imply going towards or confronting a certain situation or subject in a particular manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Approaching

    of Approach

  2. Approachingnoun

    the act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of approaching in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of approaching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of approaching in a Sentence

  1. Steve Carter:

    The methodology is the same, we are approaching this as social scientists saying, 'Can we improve decisions people are making?'.

  2. Charlie Sheen:

    I am approaching a time of more of a philanthropic culture in my life.

  3. Cris Ramon:

    Read MoreRepublicans're kind of fighting the two-front war on the border and Read MoreRepublicans're trying to message to different audiences. And that, I think, is the reason you see such a stark contrast on how Read MoreRepublicans're approaching all this : Read MoreRepublicans're speaking to two different audiences while trying to navigate Read MoreRepublicans own policy on the way forward.

  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. Peter Hotez:

    One( reason) is this steep acceleration, we're approaching( Fauci's) apocalyptic prediction of 100,000 cases a day.

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