nigh
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You know the end of summer is nigh when Vail Resorts announces opening dates for its ski resorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Chris Sutton: There's no doubt the pressure will be on Maresca from the off, and replacing Rodri is nigh on impossible.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
After another long stretch of unrelenting news, the weekend is finally nigh.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
After all, it’s a formula that has worked for nigh on six decades.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Their host, a grizzled one-armed petty lord by the name of Harwood Stout, knew better than to refuse him, though by now his larders must be well nigh exhausted.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Or the end of the Anthropocene might be nigher than you think.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
“That’s nigher where it is,” said Joe; “she ain’t living.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
"Sure she was nigher to heaven's spheres, Listening the lordly music flowing from The illimitable years."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
"I half suspect not," said he, in a low tone, and to hear which she was obliged to draw nigher to where he stood.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
The tone was angry and imperious on both sides, and, in intense eagerness, O'Shea drew nigher and nigher.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
She taketh Perceval by the hand and leadeth him to the windows of the hall that were nighest the sea.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
God is the highest, The greatest, the nighest, Gracious is ever, Is changeable never, Of all our treasures the noblest is He.
From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Paul Gerhardt
It comes nighest to the senses when the atoms act and react upon each other, in the flow of mighty rivers, in the leap of cataracts, in the turmoil of the sea.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler
A girl upon the nighest stone, Half doubtful of the deed, was standing, So far the shallow flood had flown Beyond the 'customed leap of landing.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
But your land lies nighest to my farm, and it's worth more to me than anybody else.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
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