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| near miss (plural near miss·es) |
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1. near collision: a situation in which two vehicles or airplanes narrowly avoid colliding with each other
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2. shot near target: a shot or strike that comes very close to a target but does not quite hit it
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3. barely averted disaster: something, especially something undesirable, that is narrowly avoided or averted
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