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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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage of a new law this week.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Pancaking is when a female eagle lies down flat in the bowl of the nest to test and shape it — and can signal eggs are nigh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Now that me and Lloyd saw its end might be nigh, hope broke over us.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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 sea was smooth, the weather clear; When they approached nigher, 75 King Ida's castle they well knew, And the banks of Bambroughshire.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

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

We be fast set at trump, man, hard by the fire; Thou shalt set on the king, if thou come a little nigher.

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Mr. S. Mr. of Art

If he could not accomplish the best, he contented himself with the nighest approach to it.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

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

It is the nighest, and Miss Clara cares little for rough roads.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

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

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham