near

Example Sentences

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“We’re still near the start of what is already an incredibly newsy year at home and abroad,” he wrote in the note.

From Los Angeles Times

She testified that she dropped him off near the Spohr’s home and later saw him discard items from his backpack after they crossed the Nevada state line.

From Los Angeles Times

Reising wore skis as he and other officials measured snow in a slushy meadow at Phillips Station near South Lake Tahoe, where rains in the last week began to melt the snow.

From Los Angeles Times

"Even when situations are nowhere near that scale, the symbolism remains powerful."

From BBC

The Beach Boys opened Brother Studio around 1974 near the corner of 5th Street and Broadway, just a few blocks from the beach.

From Los Angeles Times