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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 all, it’s a formula that has worked for nigh on six decades.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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

There were three bedrooms upstairs, Erma said, but no one had been to the second floor in nigh on ten years, because the floorboards were rotted through.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

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

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

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

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

Work for the good that is nighest; Dream not of greatness afar: That glory is ever the highest Which shines upon men as they are.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden

That is a monstrous big building with a great round dome on top, two broad flights of steps lead up into it, we clumb the nighest one and went inside.

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

God is the highest, The greatest, the nighest, Gracious is ever, Is changeable never, Of all our treasures the noblest is He.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Paul Gerhardt

So those two knights proceeded along that golden strand, all in the shining sunlight, until, by and by, they came to a certain part of the lake that was nighest to the castle.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle

Petronella, I will tomorrow to the village nighest at hand, whilst thou dost rest up in yon tree out of the way of all harm, where I have prepared a place of comfort.

From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Evelyn Everett-Green