damn near

idiom

informal + impolite
: just about : almost
He damn near killed us!

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This modest study of unlikely community found at the end of the world — or damn near close enough — gains a more mythic sweep as the island is faced with a perilous storm, expected to bring destructive flooding on a scale not seen in eons, and this ragtag crew must weather it together. Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025 None of it mattered because Kliff Kingsbury called damn near a perfect game and Jayden Daniels executed damn near perfectly under center. David Aldridge, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025 Compared with the recent boom of espionage series subverting the traditionally self-serious genre — Slow Horses’s lovable losers, Black Doves’s anarchic sense of humor, The Day of the Jackal’s soap-opera goofiness — this preoccupation seems damn near old-fashioned. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 Got damn near emotional reading it as a lifelong Chargers fan. Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for damn near

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“Damn near.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/damn%20near. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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