close-at-hand
adjective
lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
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close-at-hand
American
[klohs-uht-hand]
/ ˈkloʊs ətˈhænd /
adjective
close at hand
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Rubens leads our eye along diagonal lines from the ground to the sky, from the close-at-hand to the faraway, incrementally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Drawing grand lessons from especially vivid and close-at-hand examples is always tempting.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
We’re better at dealing with problems that are concrete, close-at-hand, familiar and require skills and tools that we already possess.
From Time ● Jul. 15, 2013
The numerous species of traps use ingenious methods to cover the insects imprisoned in the blossom with the sticky pollen that they carry to the flower's close-at-hand female sex organ as they try to escape.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thick of the night was light and dark, with the dense intensity of down-pour; light in itself, and dark with shutting out all sight of everything—a close-at-hand confusion, and a distance out of measure.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
So they reached for a symbol close at hand: that of Native people.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
First, don’t trade too much; second, only buy losers when you are confident that a market bottom is close at hand and a big recovery will follow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Huw Jones, one of the most formidable attackers in the history of the Scotland team, dropped a ball with the try-line close at hand.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
For when the maple sap began to run it meant that warmer days, pleasant sun, all the beauties of spring were close at hand.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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