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near thing
noun as in close call
noun as in near miss
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It was a near thing though, and if I had not met you as I did, we should scarcely have done it.
"It was a near thing—a michty near thing," he admitted in the square.
It was a near thing, and Conal used his tongue pretty freely when he talked of it.
It was a near thing for the doctor, however, and two minutes more of that grip would have done for him.
The Duke of Wellington used to say that "In every case, the winning of a battle was always a damned near thing."
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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to near thing, such as: cliffhanger, close shave, close squeeze, close thing, hairbreadth escape, and heart stopper.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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