The phrase "a close echo" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sound or idea that closely resembles or reflects something else.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a close echo of her earlier style, showcasing her growth while still honoring her roots."
Alternatives: "a near reflection" or "a strong resonance".
(This exchange has a close echo in "Robin Hood," when de Havilland exclaims, "You speak treason!" and Flynn responds, "Fluently").
Although the sex differential has narrowed since the chivalrous 1930's, when the male-female arrest ratio was 12 to 1, it remains almost 4 to 1, a close echo of the testosterone differential between men and women.
I said, 'If you want to close Echo, close it.
I'll draw to a close by echoing the words of a leader, somebody who had a dream, somebody who exuded passion, somebody who saw a better world: "Take the first step in faith.
He's clearly having some fun with it, with pointed references to a famous slogan ("Keep hope alive!") from Jesse Jackson, an essential precursor figure to Obama as the first major black presidential candidate, and, with his close, echoing Thomas Jefferson's deathless declaration of that most disputed of self-evident Enlightenment truths, that we are all "created equal".
On his end she could hear a door close, an echoing clatter.
Perhaps the closest echo of this rampage, in the dark history of American massacres, might be a 1989 shooting in Stockton, Calif., where a drifter with an assault rifle opened fire on a schoolyard.
Its closest echo is the 1992 campaign – organised for John Major by his then strategist Shaun Woodward, now a member of Brown's cabinet – appealing to voters to stick to the devil they knew.
Two of his major themes – the struggle with history and the preservation of memory (for him not nearly the same thing) – find their closest echo, appropriately, in the greatest of such communicators, James Joyce.
At 7T, higher parallel imaging factors and closer echo spacings, made possible with the stronger and faster switched read gradients, permit encoding of higher spatial resolutions with minimized distortions and susceptibility artifacts, benefiting the SIR technique (see Fig. 3).
Elizabeth Edwards, the candidate's wife, who is known as a close reader of political blogs, echoed his sentiments.
