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Recent Examples of nearly Blank check companies are on track this year to raise $25 billion, a nearly 85% drop from 2021, but a total Kwasnick thinks is more sustainable. Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 1 July 2025 The Dodgers, with their nearly $400 million roster, may soon need to pull a kid out of the stands, Henry Rowengartner-style, and put him on the mound. and Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 21 June 2025 Sadly, that night will feature a bright sky bleached by a nearly full moon. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025 Entire cities and towns—Rafah, Khan Younis, Jabalia—have been flattened, or nearly so. David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for nearly
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Adverb
  • But the absurd has become almost predictable at this point.
    Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
  • Food & agriculture is responsible for almost a third of greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from animal-source foods.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • All that effort has put more than 1.3 million asteroids in our catalogs, but astronomers expect Rubin to identify perhaps three times that many new objects—practically without trying.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • Thought and action are practically one and the same: Hungry!
    Mari Andrew, Time, 1 July 2025

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“Nearly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nearly. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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