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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 opposition didn’t even come close in their spending.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024
• Dua Lipa, Drake and Jack Harlow come close with six each, all three achieving marks in the night’s biggest categories like artist and song of the year.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
• No other franchise, dozens of films in, has managed to come close to that kind of consistency.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• The Daniels’ movie is simply resonating with the industry in a way no other contender this year has come close to.
  — Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• More than 20 years after the GameCube's debut, no gaming audio has come close to matching the earworm that is the sound of that cube rolling around a black screen.
  — Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 1 May 2023
• Only the spouses of coal miners and oil and gas industry workers come close.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The flames have come close to some 10 municipalities, but there have been no injuries or burned homes so far.
  — Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Only a very active reading of the translation can come close to that kind of excitement.
  — Nathan Jeffers, Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
• The only markets to come close were urban Hawaii, up 7.4 percent, and Boston, up 6.8 percent.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Upfront volume figures don’t come close to representing money in the bank.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 July 2024
• Republican candidates running against Murphy do not even come close to his fundraising haul.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024