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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

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding weekend is nigh, and if you’re anywhere on the internet, you already know.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

He was thirty, or nigh unto, round-shouldered and kettle-bellied, but richly dressed in a doublet of soft grey lambswool trimmed in cloth-of-silver.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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 old man sees toward his brandished bells The climbing fire With hands of boiling gold stretch nigher.

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren

Only by this Rejection of thee as a privateer She averted instant war; for now the menace Of Spain draws nigher, looms darker every hour.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

Mary tottered as she drew nigher; a terrible sense of fear was over her,—a terror of she knew not what.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

A girl upon the nighest stone,   Half doubtful of the deed, was standing, So far the shallow flood had flown   Beyond the 'customed leap of landing.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

When we reckoned this up Drusilla come the nighest to disapprovin' of the Deacon's management that I ever knew her to.

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm

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

That one nighest in is the little man-o’-war, I suppose, and yon’s the big one.

From Witness to the Deed by George Manville Fenn