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"Close, maybe about twice.
You just close — maybe make a private, side deal to dispose of something.
The times of the crimes were very close — maybe just a little too close.
Peary probably knew he had not made it, but he had come close, maybe as close as 50 miles.
"You'd think that would cause someone to say, 'Boy, if we got that close, maybe if the stars align right, who knows?' " During the last few weeks, the national news media have conjectured about the best new home for Favre.
Schadenfreude works best when the object isn't too close — maybe the guy riding around town in the top-of-the-line BMW with the license reading "Hedged" instead of the guy whose son is on your kid's soccer team.
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Half of Parking Field 5 at Robert Moses State Park is closed, maybe for the summer.
Mr. Bursey hoped he and some friends could protest somewhere closer, maybe across the road from the hangar, he said.
Hmm, democracy as an issue never to be closed; maybe Zhou Enlai had a point after all.
But as the engines of the Nashville music machine sputter and cough — labels consolidating, session work disappearing, recording studios closing — maybe the Time Jumpers aren't entirely about the past.
"If the price had been closer maybe I'd have done the right thing.
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