closest

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Gehry and Williams also happen to be the two greatest L.A. artists with whom Dudamel became closest during his L.A. tenure.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Before putting the property on the market, Barrymore seized the opportunity to make at least one more core memory there, when she celebrated her 51st birthday with some of her closest friends.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

The hair closest to the scalp will cover the most recent month, the next centimetre the next month, and so on.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

During the days leading up to the flyby and at closest approach, engineers powered up the spacecraft's imagers, magnetometers, and gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

In fact we were not Zoroastrians either, but this was the closest Samir was likely to get, and I don’t think anyone wanted to go on with the guessing.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri