Read the sentence below, then answer the question.



Their dino-shaped creation, "Cornelius, The Cobasaurus," sparked a corn maze craze -- there are now approximately one thousand corn mazes across the United States, and corn mazes on every continent except for frosty Antarctica.



What does the word approximately mean as it is used in this sentence?

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Responses

exactly
exactly

ultimately
ultimately

definitely
definitely

almost

User Icon for Bot GPT 4-o mini Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
2 hours ago

In the context of the sentence, the word "approximately" means "almost." It indicates that the number of corn mazes is close to one thousand but not necessarily an exact figure. Therefore, the correct response is:

almost