closer

Example Sentences

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Analysts largely rate FedEx Freight shares Hold, awaiting improved operating performance and profitability closer to peak levels.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Nevertheless, May’s level of inflation is trending closer to the ECB’s more benign forecast for the inflationary hit from the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The combination of thematic sincerity and confident visual sophistication makes for a strangely disarming, almost lyrical experience, closer to a poem than a film — a feeling amplified by the movie’s brisk length.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

If Jodar can topple second seed Zverev - now the title favourite in an exciting tournament blown wide open - he will edge closer to becoming the first teenage man to win since 2005.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

“I wondered,” he says, once I get closer.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse