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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

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

Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Even in the early minutes of a tumultuous night that saw Scottish football's mad-o-meter blow up in smoke, there were scenes that suggested another extraordinary chapter in the Hearts versus Celtic title story was nigh.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Two earthquakes struck London in March 1750 and convinced many Londoners that the end was nigh.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Gliding over this flat surface on one’s snow-shoes almost reaches the ideal; land and home are nigher, and as one goes along one’s thoughts fly southward to everything that is beautiful.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

The tone was angry and imperious on both sides, and, in intense eagerness, O'Shea drew nigher and nigher.

From One Of Them by Charles James Lever

And what beautiful colors greeted our weary eyes as we drew nigher.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley

Thomas Ellman, of Shoreham, John's cousin, he also approved as a breeder of sheep, but it is John that stood nighest the Earl of Egremont on Young's ladder of approbation.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

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

From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos

There's another at the end nighest Guernsey, but it's not easy.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham

Then draw lines betwene euery two prickes that be nighest togither, and ther wil appear rightly drawẽ the figure, of fiftene sides, and angles equall.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record

I remember the voyage for Cap'n Mary's sake, but most I remember it because 'twas then that I come the nighest in my life to committin' matrimony.

From Friend Island by Francis Stevens