nowhere near
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The private sector would go nowhere near these, but the council de-risked those investments with public money.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Elon Musk’s Tesla robotaxis and Amazon-owned Zoox are shuttling customers autonomously, but are nowhere near the scale at which Waymo operates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
An IPO would raise cash, but nowhere near enough to finance its ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The basic question remains: why are prices so low when oil supplies are still nowhere near normal?
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
But it wasn’t nowhere near that easy for Pap to be quit of it.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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