at close range

Very nearby, as in At close range, the rock band was unbearably loud. Derived from shooting— range denotes the distance that missile or projectile can be made to travel—this expression soon came to mean anything in close proximity.

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"I would defy anyone not to be impressed seeing such a huge bird at close range."

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She was shot three times at close range, with a blanket wrapped around the gun to deaden the sound.

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Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong'ondo Were's vehicle before one of them got off the motorbike and shot him at close range.

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He was then shot at close range by a Thames Valley Police officer from the armed response unit.

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The military official denied any of the medics were handcuffed before they died and said they were not executed at close range, as some reports had suggested.

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at close quarters at cross purposes

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