nigh
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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
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
Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
"I've seen workshops that are nigh on dust-free," marvels furniture maker and woodwork instructor Ryan Saunders.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
“Outside peoples already concede our material greatness and that we are well nigh supreme in manufactures and commerce,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
"There's none nigher than Oxford," said Mrs Nutt.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
"I thought I was nigher my journey's end than that, marm," said he.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
"Sure she was nigher to heaven's spheres, Listening the lordly music flowing from The illimitable years."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
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
It is the nighest, and Miss Clara cares little for rough roads.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
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