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You know the end of summer is nigh when Vail Resorts announces opening dates for its ski resorts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Now that the Champions League loot may be nigh we will get to see the scale of Celtic's ambition.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

After another long stretch of unrelenting news, the weekend is finally nigh.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

If you live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle or any city with a high population of Burning Man devotees, it’s nigh impossible for “The Man Will Burn” to be a prejudice-free viewing experience.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Inside the gas-mask my head booms and roars—it is nigh bursting.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Or the end of the Anthropocene might be nigher than you think.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022

“That’s nigher where it is,” said Joe; “she ain’t living.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

At last one overstretched chord of her agony slacked; she thought Something above relented; she felt as if Something far round drew nigher; she heard as if Silence spoke.

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Through all hopes that keep us brave, Further off or nigher, Love me for the house and grave,— And for something higher.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

Even thyself dost yield Something to time, and to thy grave fall nigher; But virtuous love is one sweet endless fire.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

She taketh Perceval by the hand and leadeth him to the windows of the hall that were nighest the sea.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

I’d hearn that the great hotel that wuz nighest to us looked by night jest like one of the fairy palaces we read about in Arabian Nights, and one night we see it.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

Much the nighest, sir; but we don’t want to be soaked.

From Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea by Hal Hurst

It is probable she was blown off from Madagascar by the violent northerly winds; that being the nighest land to us, though distance near 150 leagues.

From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier

Every one," says Coverdale, "doth his best to be nighest to the mark.

From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos