Near-miss

"Near-miss" in a Sentence (2 examples)

It was annoying, as the manager took his team to a near-miss in the tournament.

The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) that certain groups believed would take place in the early 21st century. -Wikipedia

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