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[ adverb ] in a close relation or position in time or space

Examples

"the onsets were closely timed" "houses set closely together" "was closely involved in monitoring daily progress"

Used in print

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

Nobody can tell more closely how many villages there are .

(R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)

Thus the transformation of Adam_Smith 's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life .

The two men resemble each other closely in their cunning , their egotism , their relentlessness .

(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

This work gave a heat_of_formation of aluminum fluoride which closely substantiates a value which had been determined by a less direct method , and raises this property to 15 percent above that accepted a_few years ago .

(Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)

Reliability and validation work with the Children 's Anxiety_Scale by Castaneda , et_al. demonstrated results closely similar to the findings with the adult scale .

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[ adverb ] in an attentive manner

Synonyms

close tight

Examples

"he remained close on his guard"

Used in print

(Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)

His father looked him over closely .

(Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)

He peered closely at Hoag in the gathering darkness .

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[ adverb ] in a close manner

Synonyms

intimately nearly

Examples

"the two phenomena are intimately connected" "the person most nearly concerned"

Used in print

(Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely , for they held their meetings in Arlen 's study .

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