as in nearly
very close to but not completely
we were almost finished with dinner when an unexpected visitor showed up there were almost enough seats for everybody on the bus
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as in relative
being such only when compared to something else
burdened with impossibly high expectations, the movie came to be regarded as an almost failure
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Recent Examples of almost
Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Jan 27 Richard Lawler Nvidia’s market cap drops by almost $600 billion amid DeepSeek R1 hype.
—Verge Staff, The Verge, 28 Jan. 2025
James Griffiths, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
West made his triumphant return to Twitter last Friday after an almost year-long hiatus.
—NBC News, 21 Apr. 2018
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Cancer incidence is also higher in certain racial minority populations—for example, the cancer mortality rate in Black men is 16 percent higher than in white men, and Hispanic people are almost twice as likely to acquire stomach or liver cancer than white people.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Jan 27 Richard Lawler Nvidia’s market cap drops by almost $600 billion amid DeepSeek R1 hype.
—Verge Staff, The Verge, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Despite arguably kicking off the trend of internet shutdowns a decade ago with an almost year-long blackout in the western province of Xinjiang, China is not a frequent offender.
—James Griffiths, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
West made his triumphant return to Twitter last Friday after an almost year-long hiatus.
—NBC News, 21 Apr. 2018
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The result is an app (available for iOS and Android, and accessible from a web browser) with nearly a million titles from major publishing houses.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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Colton Underwood and Jordan C. Brown plunked down nearly $3.2 million for a traditional Los Angeles residence in the San Fernando Valley community of Sherman Oaks back in late 2021.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
28 Jan. 2025
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The defense countered that three of those sentences were not life without parole and two were for men who committed their crime between the ages of 18 and 21, which is sometimes considered a mitigating factor at sentencing because of their relative youth.—
Brian Melley,
The Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2025
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Swedish public health authorities and advocacy groups effectively emphasized the relative risk differences between smoking and nicotine alternatives through all channels of communication and marketing.—
Markus Lindblad,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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But for practically every Redditor who weighed in, the answer was no.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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The challenge lies in the inability to consistently measure copper content in scrap, as running lab tests every hour is practically impossible.—
Svetlana Khachiyan,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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The order that Trump rescinded, originally signed by President Lyndon Johnson, applied to virtually every major business and many small companies that together employ about a quarter of workers in the United States.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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For the last four years or so, almost all political junkies on the right have been critical of virtually every word and deed that former President Joe Biden espoused.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2025
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How Klingberg and Regula might alter blue-line plans The outcomes and options pertaining to Klingberg are fairly clear.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Natural disasters can greatly benefit or gravely wound political figures — fairly and unfairly.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Almost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/almost. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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