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
I was not in the least cast down at this long-range estimate, since I had become quite used to close-at-hand ridicule.
From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey
Ben Earl and Freeman were both close to claiming clever kicks ahead with the tryline close at hand, with Jack van Poortvliet bringing some of the zip that was sorely absent in Johannesburg.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
So they reached for a symbol close at hand: that of Native people.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
A year ago, Warsh could argue both that the Fed needed to restore what he saw as lost credibility and that the conditions for rate cuts were close at hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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
And all the time there is another danger, close at hand, which he does not see, busy with his fiery thoughts.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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