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nearly
[ neer-lee ]
adverb
- all but; almost:
nearly dead with cold.
- with close approximation:
a nearly perfect likeness.
- with close agreement or resemblance:
a plan nearly like our own.
- with close kinship, interest, or connection; intimately:
nearly associated in business;
two women nearly related.
nearly
/ ˈɪəɪ /
adverb
- not quite; almost; practically
- not nearlynowhere near; not at all
not nearly enough money
- closely
the person most nearly concerned
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Example Sentences
Some Australian exports of certain goods to China fell to nearly zero.
Today their descendants make up a diaspora of nearly six million stretching from the United States and Canada to France, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.
The prosecutor said Charron stabbed Sardinha twice in the chest, nearly sliced her nose off, and stabbed her in the head so hard it bent a pronged tomato knife he was using.
California has been joined by other states in all but one of those lawsuits, and has formally backed litigants against the administration in nearly 20 additional cases, too.
But if everyone had voted, Trump would have won the popular vote by nearly five points.
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