within (easy) reach of

idiom

: close to
Our house is within easy reach of the highway.

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If war erupted with the Soviet Union, and NATO forces were quickly outmatched, the U.S. would be risking not only the lives of troops stationed in Europe but also the lives of people at home, who were now within reach of Soviet ballistic missiles. Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 As models grow more powerful, any task that can be turned into data—from spreadsheet analysis to therapy sessions—is increasingly within reach of automation. Christian Catalini, Harvard Business Review, 19 June 2025 Once a distant goal, this is now within reach of modern AIs because of the recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) such as those that power ChatGPT and that fall within the families of Claude and Llama. Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 16 June 2025 Hotel occupancy is around 69%, within reach of the 79% rate seen in 2019, and average room rates are higher. Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for within (easy) reach of

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“Within (easy) reach of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20%28easy%29%20reach%20of. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.

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