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nearness

noun as in nearness in feeling

noun as in approximateness

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“We reached out to Sinn Féin to let them know that the comments around the nearness of their knowledge about this was not the reality and that in fact we had been talking to a HR official in Sinn Féin over a year before,” said Mr McKinney.

From BBC

That pause didn’t happen, and critics like the University of Washington’s Emily Bender have called the letter itself an example of AI hype — the tendency to overstate systems’ true abilities and nearness to human cognition.

From Salon

“Nobody, nobody lives as long as I do,” she said from her home in the Los Angeles suburbs, where she wrote the recently published “The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior.”

That attitude might seem cheeky, but Reggio has become accustomed to the nearness of death.

While Plaquemines Parish, home to Belle Chasse, may not be Florida or California, its microclimate — southerly latitude and nearness to warm Gulf waters — has made it possible for citrus to be a unique part of the area’s economy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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