closest thing

collocation in English

meaningsofcloseandthing

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close
adjective
uk
/kləʊs/us
/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofcloseandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofclosest thing

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Thus, this dataset represents theclosestthingto a universe of advertisements that exists for these races.
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At present, the spatial model is theclosestthingwe have to an explanation for candidate behavior.
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The birdsong data are theclosestthingin nature that we have to the hypothetical example of a person entering a coma.
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It is, for men, at some terrible level theclosestthingto what childbirth is for women : the initiation into the power of life and death.
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Caldwell inspired me; at 83 he epitomized theclosestthingto wisdom in a man.
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That was theclosestthingto confrontation that occurred.
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They are theclosestthingto what the new system will try to set up.
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Two decades ago we were theclosestthingto a command economy outside the totalitarian models.
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They are theclosestthingto leisure centres that any of them have seen.
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That assembly issued a manifesto, theclosestthingthat exists to a federalist program.
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He was theclosestthingto an insurance policy against defeat that anybody could take out.
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His writings are theclosestthingto a secondary source in the library of rishonim.
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It's about theclosestthingto flying there is.
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In the early days, theclosestthingto campus radicals were the law students.
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Theclosestthingto albums were demos of the band, sometimes given out at concerts.
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Slate is also theclosestthingto a police officer in the city.
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Software distribution is often theclosestthingto turnkey form of free software.
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He is theclosestthingto a father figure these kids have.
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But these three are probably theclosestthingto them.
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Together, they are theclosestthingto antagonists in the story.
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