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Discover LudwigThe phrase "edged closer" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe a movement that is gradually taking place. For example, "The storm clouds edged closer as the winds began to pick up."
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We edged closer.
Then he edged closer.
Bad debts galoreSouth Korea edged closer to recession.
The children edged closer, gazing up into our faces.
We edged closer, causing them to steal further upriver.
He even edged closer to Bush in the polls.
Instead, Gay said, she edged closer to them.
The polls have inevitably reflected the noise and edged closer.
On the one hand, much of the world has edged closer to a cyborg culture.
Georgia has edged closer to the West and away from Russia.
The women began apart but edged closer together, a bond forming before our eyes.
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