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After another long stretch of unrelenting news, the weekend is finally nigh.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

If you live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle or any city with a high population of Burning Man devotees, it’s nigh impossible for “The Man Will Burn” to be a prejudice-free viewing experience.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Honey Cooper catches up on reading at home in the afternoon between elementary school and her college nigh class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

His succession is nigh, hence the opposition has every reason to raise pressure and demand structural concessions.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Winter is nigh upon us. The day I left Braavos, there was ice on the canals.”

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

The sea was smooth, the weather clear; When they approached nigher, 75 King Ida's castle they well knew, And the banks of Bambroughshire.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

I draw her to me, nigh and nigher.

From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice

I do’no—I really do’no but I’d like that knoll t’other side the river just as well, though, and it would be nigher the spring.

From Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls by Carrie L. Marshall

Thorstein sent forthwith a messenger to Wick to Flosi, and so to the nighest farm-steads.

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris

When it was fallen into decay, many folk of the lands and islands that were nighest thereunto marvel them what may be in this manor.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

Belial: They are the nighest God, their refuge sure And Father: they upon His breast have lain: Now lies a lesser one more close than they.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

King Harald’s son Magnus steered the ship which lay lowest in the river-mouth and nighest out to the lake.

From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn

Every one," says Coverdale, "doth his best to be nighest to the mark.

From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos