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closest thing

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meanings of closeand thing


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close
adjective
uk /kləʊs/ us /kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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thing
noun
uk /θɪŋ/ us /θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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Examples of closest thing


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Thus, this dataset represents the closestthing to a universe of advertisements that exists for these races.
At present, the spatial model is the closestthing we have to an explanation for candidate behavior.
The birdsong data are the closestthing in nature that we have to the hypothetical example of a person entering a coma.
It is, for men, at some terrible level the closestthing to what childbirth is for women : the initiation into the power of life and death.
Caldwell inspired me; at 83 he epitomized the closestthing to wisdom in a man.
That was the closestthing to confrontation that occurred.
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They are the closestthing to what the new system will try to set up.
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Two decades ago we were the closestthing to a command economy outside the totalitarian models.
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They are the closestthing to leisure centres that any of them have seen.
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That assembly issued a manifesto, the closestthing that exists to a federalist program.
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He was the closestthing to an insurance policy against defeat that anybody could take out.
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His writings are the closestthing to a secondary source in the library of rishonim.
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It's about the closestthing to flying there is.
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In the early days, the closestthing to campus radicals were the law students.
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The closestthing to albums were demos of the band, sometimes given out at concerts.
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Slate is also the closestthing to a police officer in the city.
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Software distribution is often the closestthing to turnkey form of free software.
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He is the closestthing to a father figure these kids have.
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But these three are probably the closestthing to them.
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Together, they are the closestthing to antagonists in the story.
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