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• r  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
  he nearly fainted
• r  in a close manner
  the person most nearly concerned

• Request "God" and it lists nearly three times as many: 1,772,945.
• If some cliques are defined by a common sport or a shared obsession with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Shawn's friends ended up being defined by their mutual destiny: nearly all of them became .
• The nearly 19 million acre slice of untouched northeastern Alaska has been a symbol of the struggle between energy exploration and the environment since its creation in 1960.

• about
• almost
• most
• near
• nigh
• virtually
• well-nigh
• closely
• intimately

News & Articles

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• Nearly 65K Arizonans foreclosed on to get checks
  Nearly 65,000 Arizonans who lost their homes to foreclosure from 2008 to 2011 will receive checks for $1,480 this summer. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says it's part of a settlement with the nation's ...
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Nearly 39,000 still without power in area; Petersburg hit hard
  Nearly 39,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers remained without power today in the Richmond area, with more than half of Petersburg still in the dark following Thursday afternoon's strong thunderstor
  June 14, 2013 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
• Nearly 460,000 People Struggle With Hunger In San Diego County, Report Reveals
  Nearly 460,000 people in San Diego County are impacted by hunger, including more than 184,000 children, according to a new report by Feeding America . In all, 15 percent of people across San Diego County don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
  June 14, 2013 - KPBS San Diego

Quotes

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• Vice President Dick Cheney in Truthdig
  This intelligence saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks,Cheney said. "These detainees also, according to the documents, played a role in nearly every capture of al Qaeda members and associates since 2002."
• Joachim Loew in Sportinglife.com
  When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could have cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA FOXNews (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/29/systemic-failure/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGt-SHWzvb_fIA9t91NK4NonCOjSg Dec 29, 2009 66864 89013 nearly Low said: The team did everything nearly perfectly. The result is nearly unbelievable because Argentina have a strong defensive team. It was first class that we were able to get so many goals."