nearly

nearly (ˈnɪəlɪ)

—*adv*
1.	not quite; almost; practically
2.	not nearly nowhere near; not at all: not nearly enough money
3.	closely: the person most nearly concerned

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nearly

1530s, "carefully;" sense of "almost, all but" is from 1680s; see near.

Example sentences

Over our lifetime nearly one half of us suffer from such disorders.

At its top, the temperature has risen back nearly to freezing.

Call me impatient, but the last two months of my job search seem to replay

nearly the same scenario over and over again.

The global livestock industry is responsible for nearly twenty per cent of

humanity's greenhouse-gas emissions.

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"Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?"

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