Synonyms for come close
come close

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1. come closeverb

   nearly do something

   "She came close to quitting her job"

   Synonyms:
   approximate

2. approximate, come closeverb

   be close or similar

   "Her results approximate my own"

   Synonyms:
   judge, guess, estimate, approximate, gauge

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1. George Sarris:

   It took three years for the country to come close to turning around, after the January 25 elections it all went downhill. Now things are bleak. For me, there is no salvation here.

2. Kyle Farmer:

   It felt really good. It was great, i’ve come close a couple of times. I didn’t think I had any more power left in me.

3. Dan Gainor:

   The problem is that the louder and loonier the hosts have become, the less even their own supporters listen to them, the reason why ‘The View’ seldom goes viral is that few watchers ever want anything to do with the program. ABC has reportedly come close to canceling the calcified program. It is long overdue.

4. Jack Keane:

   I knew it was a terrorist attack, …I was getting a report from the chief of my operations center — a two-star general — and we were talking about an airplane that had come up I-95 and had come close to Washington, D.C.,and then back to the east and went south. We err discussing what, if any, evacuation procedures there were for buildings in D.C. when the plane hit and rocked the Pentagon.

5. Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez:

   There have been repeated incidents over the last year where Russian military aircraft have come close enough to other air and sea traffic to raise serious safety concerns, and we are very concerned with any such behavior.