close-at-hand
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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And the WSJ's Bob Davis and Lingling Wei report the recent involvement of White House adviser Jared Kushner could indicate a deal is close-at-hand.
From Washington Post
Whether you go see "Allegiance," perhaps we all could at least strive to learn more by visiting what remains of such camps as Tule Lake, Manzanar or Heart Mountain, or to learn from the close-at-hand Japanese American National Museum.
From Los Angeles Times
While the Ursa operation offered a close-at-hand urban drilling example for those attending last week’s symposium in Rifle, the urban-drilling issue is actually a far bigger one along Colorado’s Front Range, where many of the attendees were from, than in western Colorado.
From Washington Times
To start, parents are often encouraged to try the most close-at-hand measures.
From US News
“Market-dominant companies have always had plenty of managerial lessons to dispense, and these lessons had plenty of enthusiastic adherents. Drawing grand lessons from especially vivid and close-at-hand examples is always tempting. Using the corporation of the moment as a model seems so obviously right—how could it go wrong?”
From Forbes
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