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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

Honey Cooper catches up on reading at home in the afternoon between elementary school and her college nigh class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Most investors fret the end is nigh, and they often panic out of positions, as witnessed during recent weakness.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

The gossoon that came from Beerhaven, said it would be nine o'clock at any rate; but sure it's nigher to ten now.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

The earth is sown with dead, And out of these the red Blooms are pushing up, advancing higher, And each night brings them nigher, Closer, closer to my heart.

From Goblins and Pagodas by John Gould Fletcher

For the dark mysterious thing, still drawing nigher and nearer, seemed some unearthly monster—a hydra approaching to destroy them.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

When joy seems highest Then sorrow is nighest, says the old rhyme.

From Elizabeth Fry by Mrs. E. R. Pitman

I can't tell what's the thought comes nighest to ye when we look at him.

From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene

But mid the thicket places there by nighest road they pass Unto their end in weed of war: with shout and serried band The clattering hooves of four-foot things shake down the dusty land.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris

Thorstein sent forthwith a messenger to Wick to Flosi, and so to the nighest farm-steads.

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris

But the yard remained, and, nighest the seaward edge of it, Exciseman Jones slept in his fearful winding sheet and bided his time.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes