nigh
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It would be nigh on impossible for the UK to develop an air-defence system that could defend the whole country with such limited resources.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
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
If things continue like this, I will be nigh on invincible by the time I take my leave of Summerland.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
I draw her to me, nigh and nigher.
From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice
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
There's no doctor nigher than Hazelmere, and I ain't goin' there.
From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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
She was nighest to me, and right in line with the light from a winda.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates
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
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
When joy seems highest Then sorrow is nighest, says the old rhyme.
From Elizabeth Fry by Mrs. E. R. Pitman
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