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• The week saw four albums debut in the top 10, though none with anything near Rodrigo’s strength.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Aug. 2021
• Three years in, 106 Seafood Underground is no longer anything near a secret.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• None of the explosions caused any damage to anything near the volcano and there are no reports of ash fall other than in the crater itself.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2012
• But American society rarely moves at anything near the speed of a rocket launch.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 June 2020
• Houston can’t manage anything near the volume of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• That definitely seems like a hard requirement to get anything near the scale of the Internet.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2021
• The family did not find anything near Townline Road, either.
  — Sarah Portney, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
• Nor does the yuan have anything near the necessary presence in currency trading.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• To this day, however, no one has ever found anything near a complete skeleton of Megalosaurus.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• Gobert was a terror, going for 24 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks, and generally spooking the Spurs out of trying anything near the rim.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2021
• There aren’t lots of people in Estes’s paintings, but the mood isn’t anything near Hopper’s loneliness or moodiness.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 Aug. 2020
• Sadly, even though there's consensus that, at least for now, the vulnerability doesn't pose anything near the threat of Log4Shell, the Spring4Shell name has largely stuck.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2022
• Most American cities, besides New York, don't have anything near that density to make this lifestyle work.
  — Jamie Valentino, Chron, 24 Dec. 2021
• Thus, the thinking went, large dinosaurs must have reached very old ages indeed, but no one knew how old, because no living reptiles attain anything near the size of a dinosaur.
  — Kevin Padian, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
• Portland is likely to see some hazy skies Wednesday, but it’s not expected to be anything near the level of smoke experienced the week of Labor Day.
  — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2020
• According to Zoom, the average home there is worth $3.6 million, and anything near the bluff-top railroad tracks is considerably more.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• This may seem like a huge lift, but not anything near as difficult as going from sequencing a brand new virus to putting a brand new vaccine in peoples’ arms in mere months, as happened with Covid-19.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• No other country in Latin America has had anything near Chile’s success.
  — Eva Vergara and Patricia Luna, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2021
• That doesn’t mean, however, that rents will return to anything near prepandemic levels.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• And besides, not everyone is convinced the flying car will reach anything near ubiquitous levels of adoption.
  — Rohit Jaggi, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2022
• Don’t return to the film expecting anything near humanizing in the portrayal of women or people of color.
  — Genevieve Angelson, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2020
• To reach anything near those growth ambitions while meeting climate goals, however, both green and blue hydrogen will be needed in abundance.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Always rubbing his cheeks on anything near him, including door frames, his two-legged friends and, well, anything around him really — Dude has a lot of affection to give to his future family.
  — The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2020
• Carter joked about how nice a previous day in the mid-90s felt, remarking that anything near those temperatures in his Elizabethton, Tenn., hometown is a pretty big deal.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• It’s been several years since Gandhi and her family have had anything near a normal holiday season.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, Marvin Harrison Jr. was the only receiver to have anything near a productive day.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
• Sending our massive selves on an interstellar journey requires huge energy at anything near light speed, and at a more modest speed, journey times to even fairly near stars could be hundreds of years.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2020
• Sending our massive selves on an interstellar journey requires huge energy at anything near light speed, and at a more modest speed, journey times to even fairly near stars could be hundreds of years.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2020
• Powder Powdered rust removers are often used to remove rust stains from anything near a rusty metal surface, including fabrics, ceramics, and concrete.
  — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
• But paying doesn't guarantee anything near full recovery.
  — Frank Bajak, ajc, 21 June 2021

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