closest
Example Sentences
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Newsom and other governors have repeatedly denied parole to his closest acolytes, though an appeals court overturned Newsom’s veto of the release of Leslie Van Houten in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mercury, the smallest planet and the one closest to the Sun, appears to have cooled relatively quickly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
About the closest they’ll come to heterodoxy is keeping silent about various unpopular stances associated with the party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
So does this pledge suggest an element of panic that he pulled this policy out of his back pocket before many of his closest allies had been told about it?
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even if I traveled for trillions of miles, I’d barely reach Proxima Centauri, the next closest star after the sun.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
