closer
Example Sentences
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As she took the stage, she scanned the audience to see Coogler rushing to carry her young son from further back in the room to a seat closer to the stage.
From Los Angeles Times
The discrepancy makes for a uniquely unnerving experience, especially in a theater with a decent sound system, where every unexpected thud can feel like it’s creeping in closer and closer.
From Salon
The biologist Michael Levin gets closer to the hard problem: The self, he claims, is memory reworking itself as circumstances demand, and consciousness the feeling of being “in charge of constant self-construction.”
One will remain closer to Mars, while the other will travel farther away.
From Science Daily
Steil-Antoni believes things are changing for the better, adding she's "cautiously optimistic" the game will move closer to "some kind of equality in my lifetime".
From BBC
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