up close
adverb or adjective
: at close range
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This is like, climate change, up close and personal.
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Up close, personal and really, really cold.
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Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2024
The highlight, of course, is being able to get right up close to one of the antenna.
—Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Perhaps rolling around and being up close and personal isn’t your thing.
—Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Four Federal Protective Service agents repeatedly popped up close to the site between August 19 and September 22 in 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024, Le Monde reported.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2024
The highlight, of course, is being able to get right up close to one of the antenna.
—Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Perhaps rolling around and being up close and personal isn’t your thing.
—Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Four Federal Protective Service agents repeatedly popped up close to the site between August 19 and September 22 in 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024, Le Monde reported.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Up close.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up%20close. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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