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"comes close to" is a perfectly valid and usable expression in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which something or someone is close to achieving a particular goal or result, or that is similar to something else in some way. For example, you might say, "This year's exam results come close to the highest ever achieved by the school."
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Here Cézanne comes close to portraiture.
Nothing really comes close to this.
Here again Apabhraṃśa comes close to New Indo-Aryan.
No player comes close to that achievement.
But nothing comes close to 1982.
Nothing comes close to the art form.
His family comes close to Hollywood royalty.
Lapin comes close to learning his lesson.
It comes close to being one elsewhere.
The bigger danger comes close to shore.
But no one ever comes close to this ideal.
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