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v. Present participle of near.

"With his four-year term nearing an end, he recently spoke with Zhang Tao of Caixin about the lessons of the crisis and the path of global development—including the internationalization of the yuan and the shifting of poverty-fighting industrialism."

stingy    ungenerous    close    unreal    artificial    left    warm    hot    nearby    adjacent   

remote    far from   

neared    nearing    nearness    nears   

never the near    near! no nearer!    near hand   

off   

neared    nearing    nearsighted   

nigh    nearly    almost    well-nigh    closely    intimately    familiar    present    intimate    proximate   

Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir   

nearby    distant    very    narrow    central    far    next    small    hard    d-marks