close-at-hand
adjective
lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
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close-at-hand
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[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
But it is debatable how many human soldiers you need these days and Woodburn said a new era of autonomous lethal weaponry was close at hand.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mr. Weidensaul explores the practice of “rewilding,” a concept that might be foreign to Americans accustomed to having large tracts of public and private wildlands close at hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
Are there any other items that you kept on your desk or close at hand as you wrote this book?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
At fifteen, Penelope was much too old for a ba-ba or a noo-noo, but the truth was her poetry book served a similar, comforting purpose, and she often kept it close at hand.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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