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 very southern tip of South America and Africa will have a partial view of the eclipse, but nowhere near totality.
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Seth Jacobson, wickedlocal.com, 16 Feb. 2026
This weekend’s storms led to some power outages across the South, but nowhere near the massive number of outages caused by ice storms late last month in northern Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee.
—Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
But nowhere near as much as this year.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
China has invested little in Russia’s economy, and nowhere near the amount that the West withdrew after Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
—Alan Cullison, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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Seth Jacobson, wickedlocal.com, 16 Feb. 2026
This weekend’s storms led to some power outages across the South, but nowhere near the massive number of outages caused by ice storms late last month in northern Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee.
—Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
But nowhere near as much as this year.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
China has invested little in Russia’s economy, and nowhere near the amount that the West withdrew after Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
—Alan Cullison, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Nowhere near.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nowhere%20near. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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