hair's breadth
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose 0.049 percentage point to 4.995%, a hair’s breadth from 19-year highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
By a hair’s breadth, it didn’t, although the Germans sank 455 ships in the operation.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
If you look at the head-to-head between Ireland and Scotland from down the years - all 146 years - you will see there's barely a hair's breadth between them.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
The dollar index - which measures the currency against six developed-market counterparts - edged up to 103.61, a hair's breadth from Friday's 10-week highs at 103.68.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2023
It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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