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nearness

noun as in nearness in feeling

noun as in approximateness

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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

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

Whenever its voice becomes audible its earnest denunciations of the Prince are accompanied by regret at his nearness to the throne.

But one through-line in her book is the constant nearness of loss, of pain, of suffering.

The nearness to nature, she said, became even more valuable during periods of pandemic isolation.

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

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