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English word

roughly

B2Frequent NGSL-3
UK /ˈrʌfli/US /ˈrʌfli/
adverb

approximately but not exactly

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Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)
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But in order to transition not just current electricity production, but also heating and transport—which roughly triples the amount of electricity that you need—it amounts to approximately 300 terawatt-hours of installed capacity.

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)

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This is an engine test of our main engine, which is called Merlin, and that generates about roughly 75,000 lbs of thrust at sea level.

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OK, so there are, roughly speaking, three types of data that modern AI is trained on: raw web data, crafted examples custom developed for AI training, and then human judgments, also known

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