come close

VERB

approach

Synonyms

STRONGEST

come contact match meet near reach surround threaten

STRONG

advance approximate bear border buzz converge equal impend progress resemble

WEAK

be comparable to be like belly up to catch up close in come at compare with correspond to creep up draw near gain on go toward loom up move in on move toward take after verge upon

Antonyms

STRONGEST

avoid depart go leave miss

STRONG

decrease retreat retrogress stop

WEAK

distance go away

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come close

But those figures don’t come close to expressing the full extent of future spending to which Google parent Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Oracle and many others have committed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

None of his fellow chain crew members come close to equaling Moreno’s years of service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

None of these come close to raising any constitutional questions.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

These changes indicate that Agulhas Leakage weakened dramatically and may have come close to stopping.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Now he was in danger of finishing the most important race he’d rowed without having come close to exhausting himself—the last thing any oarsman wants.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

come close

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