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around the corner

ADJECTIVE
close
Synonyms
STRONGEST
adjacent convenient
STRONG
abutting adjoining approaching handy impending nearest neighboring nigh warm
WEAK
across the street at hand contiguous give or take a little hard by immediate imminent in spitting distance in the ball park near-at-hand nearly next proximate under one's nose
Antonyms
STRONGEST
distant far
STRONG
remote
WEAK
away far-off faraway

Example Sentences

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You have been taking these rankings, and similar data points, seriously, long before anyone else was seeing around the corner of why they should matter.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Later in the evening, police officers, some on horseback, moved in on a smaller group of demonstrators around the corner from the federal detention facility.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

In the live, as the members sit around a table of food with a Christmas tree in the background, talk turns to how 2025 is ending and the new year is around the corner.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

When Delmonico’s first opened around the corner from Wall Street in 1837, it coincided with a financial panic, bank failures and the popping of a real-estate bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Glancing over my shoulder to make sure they’re not following me, I break into a run, dart left down an alleyway and around the corner, increasing the distance between me and him.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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