Noncommutative version of Littlewood's First Principle

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There are definitely noncommutative analogues for Lusin's theorem and Egoroff's theorem (found in Blackadar for example). I'm curious if there is a version of the first principle:

Every Lebesgue measurable set is almost an open set.

In this noncommutative setting, I wonder if this is just saying that a von Neumann algebra is densely spanned by its projections (this is certainly true)... but is this the appropriate analogy?