How To Use Closest In A Sentence
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Stars' glorious start to the season has hit a slight snag lately with a couple of draws, while their closest rival, Ballina, continues to string together victories.
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You can stoke his silicon chest and pinch his squeezable bum - it may be the closest you ever get to doing it.
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It's the closest part he's ever played to his real self, but the fact that he played it kind of nelly was a big risk.
A Pirate's Life
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There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word.
Hyphens.
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If we posit a voiceless spirant value for Uralic *x by this stage anyway, over in PFP the closest equivalent would be śexćim.
Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
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When stressed we are often the most cruel to those who we feel closest to.
Times, Sunday Times
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His closest friends had no time for biblical Christianity, his church attendance lapsed, and his work became increasingly secular, including writing for the theatre.
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Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
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Altair, at a distance of 17 light-years, is one of the closest of the bright stars.
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But despite the best efforts of his closest aides, it was not until two hours later that the Pope finally relented, the report said.
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Well to me, being on stage is the closest thing to actually making love, you know.
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This happens around the time that Mercury arrives at that part of its orbit which places it closest to the Sun (called perihelion ), where it's orbital speed can briefly exceed its rotational speed.
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With a $200 million Moore Foundation grant, the Thirty Meter Telescope is the closest of the next-generation devices to full funding.
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Today, on the Sunday closest to what used to be called Armistice Day, thousands will gather around war memorials, in country churchyards and civic centres to remember the dead of armed conflicts since 1914.
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Sarah Flanagan said the Odeon was the closest cinema for many people.
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The other object is SN 2007gr, which was first detected in August 2007 in the spiral galaxy NGC 1058, some 35 million light-years away it's one of the closest Ic supernovae detected in the radio waveband.
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He's just been asked why, within months of becoming leader, David Cameron had donned salopettes to travel to the Arctic with huskies in a demonstration of a new leader with new values, but at a similar stage in his leadership Ed Miliband is at home in north London, new Timberland deck shoes sparkling, nowhere near the north pole but in a living room with a beautiful cream carpet the closest thing to snow.
Ed Miliband ? no huskies, no north pole, but he's in for the long haul
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When stressed we are often the most cruel to those who we feel closest to.
Times, Sunday Times
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Describing her mother's reaction to the news, Harrold said she was unable to face even her closest friends.
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The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find.
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One of her closest friends - in fact, her closest friend - lived in Nice with her brother.
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If he dies without making a will, his closest relative will inherit.
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Ocado operates out of one centralised distribution centre in Hertfordshire, whereas others tend to "store pack" at the closest branch to your home.
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This arrangement is referred to as "hexagonal closest packing;" something often seen in honeycombs or oranges stacked at a fruit stand.
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The area was the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, bore the full brunt of the subsequent tsunami and was clearly one of the worst affected areas.
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The Mallee is the closest thing Victoria has to the outback.
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This corrupt and bureaucratized organization, which by its own account formally represents barely 12 percent of Venezuelan workers, is among the closest allies of the US AFL-CIO.
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Recently we have been ‘Christmas’ but before that ‘festive season’ whilst insipid is the closest we can get to I guess?
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In multiple display environments where no display contains any portion of the specified window, the display closest to the object is returned.
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This happens around the time that Mercury arrives at that part of its orbit which places it closest to the Sun (called perihelion ), where it's orbital speed can briefly exceed its rotational speed.
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On the slightly down-at-heels Upper West Side block where the story unfolds, happiness — or the closest Schine's brightly downbeat characters can come to it — is next to dogginess.
Doggy Affections
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The wolds are the closest thing we have in this area to a hill, and those from hilly country would regard them as no more than casual undulations in the landscape.
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Of the three leading presidential contenders in 1987, he was the closest to a normal politician.
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The closest was pagan-topologist making the world a greener place.
What Would You Be Willing to Die for?
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You are our closest ally and our economies are so interlinked.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was from Greenwich herself, and that was the closest she ever came to France, but no matter; in the world of the demireps, you can be what you wish to be.
Dearly Beloved
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If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were.
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Mother was referring to the infamous story of Helen Potter, daughter of a multimillionaire beer and wine distributor in Hyannis Port who, after she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy Boston builder, was discovered naked in bed with her closest girlfriend.
Olivia
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The Jura are the closest mountains across the Channel and it doesn't cost much to reach them.
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The closest thing he was capable of was mutualism and even that was a stretch and a rarity.
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Closest to the fire sat the village elders and leaders, then sat the able-bodied men, and the outside of the huddle consisted of the women and children.
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In the case of a recognised accident, the rider shall be entitled to a neutralisation during the number of laps closest to 1300 metres.
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She's my best/oldest/closest friend - we've known each other since we were five.
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But in all cases they refer to behaviour that has impinged adversely on others, usually those closest to me.
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Australia is the closest we have to a classless society.
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In a game, if the dribbler turns his back to the basket and his defender, the next closest defender should leave his man and go steal the ball.
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Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.
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A photo opportunity with one of his closest allies would signal a rapprochement that has no basis in fact.
Times, Sunday Times
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I took her to the closest base (her husband was at Basic Training), showed her how to get an ID card (which required some firm talking) and introduced her to the commissary and Base Exchange.
Chatting Them Up - SpouseBUZZ
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If the closest you get to a lisp is the programming language, take a seat.
Waterdiluted Diary Entry
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The organization of the gametophyte stands in the closest relation to the factors of light and moisture in the environment.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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In addition to addressing the crowds as he journeyed through Galilee and around Jerusalem, he drew aside to be with his closest associates.
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At opposition, a planet also comes closest to earth and shines at its brightest for the year.
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After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland,
Barbarossa
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 The kazoos closest instrument is an African horn-mirliton.
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For some reason, the first people to start walking towards the centre bypassed the roadblock and headed cross-country, making a beeline for the fence closest to the place where detainees were protesting.
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The bright red stool that sat closest to the register and the threateningly sharp check spike was the least used.
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Edwards will be competing against his closest rival Olsson in the triple jump.
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Poussin's use of mirroring armor to encompass something beyond the representation is self-conscious and finds its closest parallel in another work by van Eyck.
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The latest row arises from an apparent attempt by his closest aide to silence one of the pollsters.
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Don't get me wrong, I love 'em to death, but the way they seem capable of turning any situation into a game of one-upmanship -- even with their closest buddies -- can be a pretty awesome spectacle.
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The closest ring, at Tucki Tucki, lies on a trading route that once stretched to the Bunya Bunya mountains in Queensland, and was still in use for corroborees until at least 1880 (and probably for long afterward).
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This should be one of the closest and most professional games of the round as the two sides try to position themselves for a home semi final.
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Taxonomists can now say that the ferns' closest cousins are the seed plants - angiosperms (flowering plants) and gymnosperms (such as conifers).
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When I sing, people want to bung the closest brick at me.
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He was losing weight at a dramatic rate and many of his closest friends feared he might be near death.
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And my son isn't interested in carousing with 92,000 of his closest friends.
Your Right Hand Thief
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It was the closest he could come to religion: this sense of something in the backyard at night.
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The chimp is the closest living relative of the human species; 97 percent of the DNA in chimps and humans is identical.
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All in the party senior leadership save his closest guerilla comrades were purged.
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When the green light above the elevator dinged quietly he flattened himself against the side of the wall closest to the elevator door and pushed Peaches forward so that she was doing the same.
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The Obama administration wants the UK government, its closest ally in Europe, at the heart of policy-making on the continent alongside Merkel and Sarkozy.
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Sitting down at an almost empty table, the two new arrivals exchange curt nods with those closest to them.
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Because of the online disinhibition effect some share too much on their social networking profiles, sometimes even things they wouldn't admit to their closest friends.
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In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft (at a distance of 600 kilometres from Halley).
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Is it closest to the mole rats, or porcupines, or even chinchillas?
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And indeed, the closest competitor a creature is ever likely to meet is a member of its own species.
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It appears that in most big league parks, the inside vertical line (closest to home plate) of the batter's box is not outlined.
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The influx of large numbers of construction workers had inevitably caused disruption in the nearby villages, especially the closest, Stogursey.
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He beat his closest/nearest rival by 20 marks.
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He has a fully visible collaborator and hagiographer named Mark Salter who is also his closest aide and his most vicious attack dog.
Prickly McCain Refuses To Define "Honor" In Interview
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Throughout their years together, Mrs Reagan was her husband's champion, helpmate and closest adviser.
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I wanted to brainstorm with you, however, the closest you'll ever come to a brainstorm is a light drizzle.
Home
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The example NTT uses is a wine store where the prices of the various cuvées on offer are arranged as items floating in space, the cheapest bottles closest to the viewer and the most expensive further away, and spread from left to right by type.
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Mr Blair himself was taking a personal interest: the Prime Minister's closest aides were copied in to all the memos and documents winging around Whitehall.
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One of his closest friends told me, "He's been overprogrammed.
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Because of people such as them, sports is the closest thing America has to a true meritocracy.
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The closest restroom is several hundred feet away.
No. 8: Out in left field in Houston's Crawford Boxes
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With dozens of blogging sites to pick from, a teen could choose to be faceless, anonymous and almost untraceable by the people closest to them.
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The closest beaches are two miles away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because Canada and Mexico are our closest neighbors (and our incompetent, corrupt politicians always need easy votes), Washington will no doubt forge ahead with its Canada-America-Mexico 'supernation' plan.
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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A man in a flight suit strides over to the closest patient, the black Christian cross badge on his tan uniform indicating his role among the aircrew.
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He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour, the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.
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On the eve of departure, many forty-niners also visited the daguerreian studio to have a ‘likeness’ or two taken for their closest and best-loved female companions, their mothers, wives and sweethearts.
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The closest airport is in the city of Adana, which is an hour and
From the Trenches - Off the Grid- Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park, Turkey
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The closest we got was farmed ostrich and wild boar.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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Back in the 18th century they often used the term lentando, and even today there are a number of directions that mean roughly the same thing, the closest being ritardando, and also ritenuto, which generally implies a more sudden slowdown.
News
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The closest thing I ever heard to the sound was a deer snort, but it wasn't the same.
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Dromaeosaurs, a group of small, fleet-footed dinosaurs in the theropod family, are thought to be the closest known relatives of birds.
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If noise is the signature tune of the world, the silence is the music of the other world, the closest thing we know to the harmony of the spheres.
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You can solve a dilemma for one of your closest pals.
The Sun
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The closest I came to an accident all day was pulling out of an angled T-junction without being afforded a proper view of the road.
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Having children can often unbalance even the closest of relationships.
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I agree, some of my best and closest friends are devoted Muslims, being in state of hypnoses is not reason to abandon your friend.
Jihad Monitor
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But over the years Laura has always been one of Diana's closest confidantes.
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When we were driving I hadn't really paid attention to what street we were on so I walked to the closest stop light and read the street sign.
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At the moment, the closest most engine analysts get is taking average readings from the piston crank and the oil sump.
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MR. MCCURRY: Well, I think all of you are well aware that many of our closest allies do not appreciate what are called the extraterritoriality features of this provision.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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Police feared the number of casualties could rise even further once authorities reach remote areas, including a tiny island closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, which struck on Sunday night.
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A taxi dispatcher requires the precise location of cabs to determine which is the closest to a pickup.
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After paying taxes all my life, the closest I can get to having a horse is to buy a cheeseburger.
The Sun
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Yet he is trusting, generous and hypersensitive, reacting physically to the more complex social problems of those closest to him.
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(One afternoon melee at a friend's wedding, as the groom's rugby buddies drank the bar dry and tore up the dance floor in a loud, lewd, men-only kind of gyrating scrum, is about the closest I've come to the sport.)
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Endless tributes, adulation and back rubs from his closest allies tend to obscure the truth.
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When a mass of players converges upon a loose ball, it is the closest official who must determine possession.
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His closest competitor for the Republican nomination was Robert Taft. Taft was a senator from Ohio and the son of a former president, William Howard Taft.
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I thought the baton strike was a good strategical tactic to fell the enemy closest to you and create a block to the oncoming hordes thus creating that little bit of space between you and the ‘enemy’.
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The hypsometers (water boilers) can be seen at each lab station, and the closest one actually has a plume of steam escaping from its top.
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That's the impression I got when I first started exploring the subject, about 15 years ago, and even my closest friends and simpatico colleagues thought I was bonkers to write a whole book about them.
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The closest guideline is a Chicago Manual of Style stipulation that in philosophical and linguistic texts certain terms might be enclosed in single quote marks (14th edition, 6.67 and 6.74).
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Last August he convened a meeting of his closest advisers at Camp David.
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But our economy is still over twice as large as our closest competitor.
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Mr Yeltsin has instructed his closest aides to present their own plan, guaranteeing strong presidential rule.
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On a similar note, perhaps Kelly Kapoor is so broken up over the Scranton branch’s loss of the Belle of the Ball himself (Ryan) that she falls into the arms of the closest man to her cube … which I believe it either Toby or Kevin.
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I count some of these amongst my closest friends - people whose self-sacrifice and unselfish love of truth would do credit to any man.
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His third wedding was quiet and private, with only his closest friends invited.
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This alloy has the closest thermal expansion match to alumina, beryllia, and vitreous glass
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Then, when England batted, the closest the home side came to a breakthrough was Ben Hilfenhaus's short-lived "lbw" against Alastair Cook.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The latest row arises from an apparent attempt by his closest aide to silence one of the pollsters.
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He is generally considered to be the Prime Minister's closest political ally.
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For his closest friends and family his demise was shockingly adventitious.
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We've managed to match our closest competitors stride for stride as regards prices.
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If you honestly believe that had he been the prime minister, Britain would not have aided our closest ally the US in Iraq then I'm sorry, you're living in cuckoo land.
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Bormann followed the simple principle of always remaining in the closest proximity to the source of all grace and favor.
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Up until this season the umpire closest to any suspicious or contentious incident would review the game tape and lay a charge if warranted.
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People were less likely to lose their temper with people they disliked than with the people to whom they felt closest.
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Lancaster had already made his resolve clear when, within days of his appointment, he suspended Danny Care, the England player to whom he is closest, after he was arrested for drink-driving.
Six Nations: Stuart Lancaster committed to England's long-term vision
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Carriage driving is the closest thing to riding.
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In general, graffiti is removed by using paint in a colour which has the closest match to the actual colour of the tree trunk.
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When you try to dial their number, the app will alert your closest friends by text so they can stage an intervention.
The Sun
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I was sitting in my usual seat in the fourth row of the lecture theatre beside one of my other closest friends, Natalie, or Tally, as I liked to call her.
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The harassed villagers who live on the reserve might come closest to entertaining the notion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The closest I’ve been to a hot air balloon is I saw a buttload from a distance as I left my hotel room.
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When an exception occurs, execution stops and control is given to the closest exception handler.
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Second, the relative decrement in response amplitude during a train is greatest closest to the release site, i.e., with exposure to the highest concentrations of transmitter.
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At the moment the Earth's closest approach to the Sun occurs in January, when the North Pole is pointing away from the Sun, resulting in slightly colder northern hemisphere winters.
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Canadian planes were ordered to land at the closest national airport, stranding thousands of air travellers.
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I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The closest thing to a comparison is probably something like 1952: the economy was doing quite well that year, but the Korean War had become fairly unpopular, Democrats had been in power for a long time, and Republicans nominated an exceptional candidate in Eisenhower, leading Truman to decline a chance at another term and Adlai Stevenson to do poorly in his place.
NYT > Home Page
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NGU.EN: Screening, finger printing, no-fly lists, all efforts to keep would-be terrorists out of the U. S, but the threat is still there and experts say it is coming from one of America's closest allies.
CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2008
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The closest thing Latinos have is El Guapo's arch enemy - Edward James Olmos - who, at worst, may simply shake his head disapprovingly from his Beverly Hills rumpus room and brandish a microwave chimichanga at the television screen at news of a proposed Congressional Bill aimed at mandating that landscapers work while wearing proof of citizenship like a Flava-Flav clock.
El Guapo: WANTED: Latino Al Sharpton
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To put a fine point on it, the closest that Lindsay Graham has come to the sound of gunfire was lawyering from a desk at McIntire Air National Guard Station – South Carolina in 1991.
Waldo Jaquith - Sen. Webb’s best moment yet.
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While there he claimed to have gained his closest access to the monarch, carrying food to her apartments, serving her gin and Dubonnet, and delivering mail to her room.
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Guess what, gene expression produces the same nested hierarchy of relatedness, with chimps our closest relatives, as we find for genes.
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One of the closest companions of Jesus, who ate this last Passover supper, was named Judas.
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The clouds surrounding the star system Rho Ophiuchus compose one of the closest star forming regions.
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And so it should be, as it is the closest you can get to the original version of the elixir as created by those Carthusian monks in 1605, and it is almost 60 percent alcohol by volume.
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Last August he convened a meeting of his closest advisers at Camp David.
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I don't necessarily identify as a Jack and Emily shipper, but they're the closest thing the series has to real honest love.
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We reached out to one of our closest friends, Patty Howe Criner, who had grown up with Bill, and we asked her to work with Dick on the funeral arrangements.
Living History
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I also resented his attack on financial journalists, as I count most of the finance fraternity among my closest friends.
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It's one of those things that i'm just gonna take with me to my grave, probably the closest I'll ever come to space, in its dippy space camp way, you know?
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In the same space of time their closest competitor won only one.
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'Clover', a Nike representative posted the following in the Nike+ forums, the closest to an official word on the problem, requesting additional information from users.
Macworld UK News
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an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today
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Even our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, are guilty.
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My wife's head was pointed in the direction of the closest window to my left and I only smiled calmly with appreciation as the covers of her sheets climbed up her shoulders in a warmth embrace.
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Serbia; the renascence of Russia; the wonderful upleap to the needs of the times by Great, and still more by Greater Britain; and, not least, the bracing of the loins of our closest Allies just across the water.
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This was more than just a belated postscript to one of the closest and most bizarre elections in history.
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Second, his indifference to business proficiency as a qualification for his closest companions.
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The closest thing to nobility found in our ranks is the bastard son of a petty knight (the captain).
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It is 10 billion miles from the sun, over three times more distant from the sun than its next closest planet, Pluto.
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As the closest European nation to Libya, as well as to Tunisia and Egypt, Italy's economic well-being depends heavily on having a good relationship with North Africa.
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The opposition of those Protestants who are closest to the spirit of primitive Protestantism rests, as we have said, on the fear that whatever is conceded to the authority of the Church detracts correspondingly from the authority of the Word of God in the Bible.
Scripture
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Freemantle and the newly ordained Richard Grey remained Crewe's closest confidants through the last years of his life.
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In the dim glow of the closest streetlight Anthony could see her face turn pale.
HAUNTED
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He was my closest friend and confidante.
The Sun
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On orders charging freight, orders should be able to rate freight based on the least expensive (usually closest) warehouse location.
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I'm told that I am crazy to think of moving to a really rural location, miles from the nearest town and the closest hospital.
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The closest I've got is Venice Connection which is as much a puzzle as a game.
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A block of glass is silvered over the upper portion of the face closest to the laser beam.
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Lewis was my closest acquaintance.
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It was perhaps the closest the country has come to a state funeral in modern times.
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And it became increasingly clear to his closest friends that he could not live comfortably with success.
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It included all those who shared the pool this week, from his closest pursuers to the freestyler from the Congo who didn't know how to get up on the start blocks and had been training in a hotel pool back home.
Lopresti: Golden boy Phelps is the center of USA's attention
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You are our closest ally and our economies are so interlinked.
Times, Sunday Times
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They went to the people closest to the work - the train crews and yardmasters - to get input.
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These women are the closest equivalent it has to matrifocal heads of households.
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Today those closest to our violent past seem to dominate the political landscape and many remain entranced by sectarian concerns.
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For the closest relative that TV has among other machines is not the cinema projector or computer, but the polygraph, aka the lie detector.
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Monkey business A legal case in Los Angeles County may have far-reaching implications for the rights of our closest non-human relatives.
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The governor's closest advisors quietly believe the election is in the bag.
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For a few moments the couple find themselves in church or in the registry office watched by their closest family and friends, publicly swearing what amounts to a solemn oath of allegiance to each other.
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They are our closest living relatives and thus are in a unique position to inform us about our evolutionary heritage, " said Dr Parr.
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There have also been regular five-a-side basketball games with some of his closest aides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since Prince Edward left the television industry, Julian Fellowes, a lord married to one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, is the closest British TV has to royalty.
TV review: Downton Abbey
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I've always counted Lucy among my closest friends.
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Roosevelt, the most powerful man in the world at that time, lavished attention on our closest ally while virtually ignoring the tinpot dictator of a small, weak country who was once silly enough to declare war on our ally.
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He managed to hold a lead of two seconds over his closest rival.
