almost

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Exports of Canadian goods increased 1.6% from the month before to C$75.16 billion, and have jumped almost 25% on a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

But then, outside of our work, we are judged almost worse about how we’re aging, how we’re not aging, what we look like, what we don’t look like.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

It is almost half of the reduction seen in 2023, when emissions fell by 1.9%.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

This year marked the 82nd anniversary, and almost no one who was there in 1944 is still with us.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

You know that place, you lived near there for almost a year in middle school, the Smoky Mountains feeling close to home.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith