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near disaster

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meanings of nearand disaster


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near
adjective[before noun]
uk /nɪər/ us /nɪr/
not far away in distance, time, characteristics, ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk /dɪˈzɑː.stər/ us /dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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Examples of near disaster


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For many families struggling to buy their homes increases of that sort represent neardisaster.
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The tourist industry is undergoing a season of neardisaster.
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So often in the past, with remarkably astonishing results, the yard has fought back from neardisaster to survival.
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It is a mosaic of causation, producing the neardisaster that we had barely a week ago.
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It is not when things are palpably and obviously in a state of neardisaster that the whistle needs to be blown.
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Must we wait for a neardisaster before taking action on the many other aspects of pollution of our environment?
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Broadly speaking, it catalogued the shortage of medical personnel and the neardisaster level of military medical establishments, which have been cut to the bone.
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For some of them it is a bit early to start celebrating just because they have progressed from neardisaster to mere crisis.
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We were perilously neardisaster in the last war.
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It seems to me to be the one way at this late stage of retrieving a neardisaster which seems to be almost upon us in this very important question.
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The newspaper also reported a neardisaster when her dress caught on fire from the footlights.
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They found themselves as close as 15 miles from the front lines, and this led to neardisaster on at least one occasion.
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Yet at the opening of the attack there was a neardisaster when two columns blundered into each other in the dark.
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Neardisaster struck, however, in 1938 when a massive fire consumed most of the plant, including the slaughterhouse.
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Some floods neardisaster were the reason for a restoration concept.
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