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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost apart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two things are nearly separated or not quite together.
Example: "The two friends were almost apart after their disagreement, but they managed to reconcile."
Alternatives: "nearly separated" or "close to being apart".
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With its team leader Gerrard sent off, and with the one other world-quality player, Fernando Torres, once more looking isolated and almost apart from the team's efforts, Liverpool could hardly expect to save the Cup tie.
Their final hours together are achingly inconsequential: they discuss their trip, Ida's shoes; skidding off one another, almost, apart from the single piercing moment when G plucks the white hairs from his mother's chin.
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I almost fell apart with the stress.
The settlement almost fell apart over the weekend.
I almost fell apart with the stress," he said.
Ratcliffe stopped sleeping, couldn't eat, and almost "fell apart".
The takedown of Mohammed had almost fallen apart several times, thanks to C.I.A. mismanagement of Asset X.
But it almost fell apart Thursday when Mr. Moscatiello's lawyer, David Bogenschutz, withdrew because of illness.
RICHARD BRODY: Movie music is almost unlistenable apart from a movie.
Since the meat has to be braised until almost falling apart, timing is flexible.
It's like the baby who's almost pulled apart in front of Solomon.
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