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But one obvious answer is that attention is a limited resource, and its apportionment to Iran and Hezbollah, in preference to Hamas and the Palestinian issue near at hand, mirrored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s worldview.—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025 Part of what startled Fitzgerald’s generation about their studio experience was how near at hand the real bad guys could be.—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 And a starkly apocalyptic interpretation of the New Testament is always near at hand.—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 Often, the reprisals would be meted out on prisoners of war, who were near at hand and could easily be killed.—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024 So with thousands of missiles raining down, the devastation and the danger are near at hand.—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2023
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