nowhere near
idiom
1
: not at all near to
We were nowhere near a hospital.
2
informal
: not at all : not nearly
Their house is nowhere near as nice as yours.
That is nowhere near enough water.
The house is nowhere near finished.
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The victim's girlfriend later identified a different man in a photo lineup, but investigators determined that that suspect was nowhere near the scene at the time of the shooting.
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Julia Falcon, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
The tension is that the scientific evidence of a pervasive public-health problem caused directly by social media is nowhere near as strong as the popular feeling about its obviousness.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
Shopping, which is the company’s bread and butter, is just one narrow application in a far broader field, while Amazon’s Alexa and Echo devices have nowhere near the reach of numerous Google products.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
Analog cameras are nowhere near as efficient as biological eyes.
—New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025
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Julia Falcon, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
The tension is that the scientific evidence of a pervasive public-health problem caused directly by social media is nowhere near as strong as the popular feeling about its obviousness.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
Shopping, which is the company’s bread and butter, is just one narrow application in a far broader field, while Amazon’s Alexa and Echo devices have nowhere near the reach of numerous Google products.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
Analog cameras are nowhere near as efficient as biological eyes.
—New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nowhere near
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“Nowhere near.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nowhere%20near. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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