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a barely successful escape from something undesirable
- a near miss with death prompted him to give up skydiving
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The Weird Logic of 'Near Miss'
The Weird Logic of 'Near Miss'
It's not the catastrophe it could have been.
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“Near miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/near%20miss. Accessed 21 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of near miss was in 1940
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