almost

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After seesawing results for almost 24 hours, Caruso conceded the race to Bass on Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Over that period, stores sold almost 1.3 million guns to traffickers that were subsequently recovered in a crime, according to an Everytown analysis of ATF statistics.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

In almost all of his 20 previous Tests, he would have played with either James Anderson or Stuart Broad as the attack leader.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Brunson’s wasn’t even the splashiest purchase in New York that year: A few months before the Knicks spent $104 million on him, Christie’s sold a Warhol at an auction for almost $200 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Had it not been for the ever more distant thunder of Russian guns we might almost have been able to forget that there was a war going on at all.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo