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• But the district hasn’t come close to that point in at least the past decade.
  — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Jan. 2025
• But come close to that line. 99% of your competitors don't put in the work.
  — Jim Vandehei, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
• This isn’t the first time its use has come close to expiring.
  — Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
• The city hasn’t ever come close to fulfilling the pledge.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
• The Spurs equaled the Pelicans with 32 points off the bench, but that tally doesn’t come close to telling the whole tale.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Take a look at Carlos, the last player to come close to doing so.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• And the best passers in the NFL typically come close to hitting 70% of their throws.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• None come close to reaching the heights of Wan’s vision, but there are a few gems and a few real stinkers in the bunch.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• No one in Hawks history has come close to his record 28 hat tricks.
  — Phil Thompson, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2023
• There was no crooked number, and there still hasn't been a ball hit that's come close to going out of the ballpark.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• For now, the star power won’t come close to rivaling Clark or Reese.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Robby Newton was tossed into the deep end of the pool last week and didn’t come close to sinking.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
• But unlike last year’s Buffs, those turnovers didn’t even come close to sinking them.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2024
• Davis did not come close to earning the contract value.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• And both Frances and the young man do come close to some kind of breakthrough, some revelation.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• No song in Moana 2 will come close to Frozen or Encanto chart numbers.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
• There are a few drugstore dupes that come close, but in my opinion, nothing beats the real thing.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• But none have come close to Trump’s unvarnished quid pro quo on spending.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Yet none of the locations has come close to securing a union contract with the company, and the pace of the union’s growth has slowed.
  — Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• In just a few frames, that bestseller will reach 1,000 turns on the ranking, which is a feat that very few releases can even come close to.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
• Heck of a third period, but the Avs for about 43 minutes didn’t come close to matching the intensity of the Stars.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 12 May 2024
• No one in the locker room has won more titles or has come close to what he’s accomplished in that sector.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
• The home game was the kind of diversion the players needed after the past seven days, in which some players saw the flames come close to their homes.
  — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 14 Jan. 2025
• He’s never come close to winning a majority of the vote.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
• No one in major-league history has come close to putting up such numbers.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2024
• Now 65, he’s come close to freedom on three occasions in recent years.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Most of them wander far beyond our perception, but a few come close enough to Earth to raise our hackles.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
• Nobody has come close to matching his achievements at the plate and on the mound, becoming one of the majors’ elite players in both roles when healthy.
  — Ronald Blum and David Brandt, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• The large castings for the battery packs are the opposite of handmade—human hands don't come close while the various robots do their thing.
  — Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025