Example Sentences

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The government forecasts inflation will near 20% at the end of 2023.

From Reuters • Dec. 12, 2022

Shafer’s command at Cape D will run through 2021, at which point she will near a retirement window in a service where numbers of women have grown, but retention rates have been challenging.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2019

If the $875,000 projection by Lionsgate and Amazon Studios holds, the film’s domestic gross to date will near $1.4 million.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2016

He estimates the final tab to remake a store built in 1971 will near $2 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2016

Old M. Faustus, I leave thee, but with grief of Heart, Fearing thy Enemy will near depart.

From The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by Mountfort, William