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What is another word for be nearly?

Pronunciation: [biː nˈi͡əli] (IPA)

The phrase "be nearly" is used to indicate proximity or closeness to a goal or event. There are several synonyms that can be used in place of this phrase, depending on the context. For instance, "almost" is a commonly used synonym that implies a goal is almost reached. "Approaching" is another great word choice, signifying that the event or goal is on the horizon and getting closer. Other alternatives for "be nearly" include "about to," "on the brink of," "nearing," and "close to." Using any of these synonyms in lieu of "be nearly" can spice up your language and make your sentences more engaging.
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What are the hypernyms for Be nearly?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    approximate, be close, be almost, Be approximately, Be basically, Be nearly identical, Be nearly the same, Be virtually.

Famous quotes with Be nearly

  • If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
    Lawrence Hargrave
  • "I want you to connect these dots and see if you see what I see. Picture this. The Circle has been devouring all competitors for years, correct? It only makes the company stronger. Already 90 percent of the world's searches go through the Circle. Without competitors, this will increase. Soon it'll be nearly 100 percent. Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. You can control most of what anyone sees and knows. If you want to bury some piece of information, permanently, that's two seconds' work. If you want to ruin anyone, that's five minutes' work. How can anyone rise up against the Circle if they control all the information and access to it? They want everyone to have a Circle account, and they're well on their way to making it illegal not to. What happens then? What happens when they control all searches, and have full access to all data about every person? When they know every move everyone makes? When all monetary transactions, all health and DNA information, every piece of one's life, good or bad, when every word uttered flows through one channel?"
    Dave Eggers
  • Since the beginning of this war two men, whom we had thought of as slowly and unwillingly retiring from public life, have emerged into a glare of prominence. I mean Mr. Churchill and Mr. Wells. They must be nearly contemporary; they were both men of celebrity, I remember, when I was a freshman.
    H. G. Wells
  • A resuscitated orthodoxy, so pervasive as to be nearly invisible, rules the land. Like any religion worth its salt, it shapes our world in its image, demonizing if necessary, absorbing when possible. Thus has the great sovereign territory of what Nabokov called “unreal estate,” the continent of invisible possessions from time to talent to contentment, been either infantilized, rendered unclean, or translated into the grammar of dollars and cents. Thus has the great wilderness of the inner life been compressed into a median strip by the demands of the “real world,” which of course is anything but.
    Mark Slouka

Related words: be somewhere, be around, be close, be near, be by someone, be on

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