Now we are getting close to the meaning of hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Men now make close to one-fifth of the complaints.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Not now. Not when we are so close.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

That could happen later this month. The government now thinks close to five million barrels of oil leaked into the gulf between April and the middle of July, when the spill was contained.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

"I don't think there's a good reason to close schools in Ethiopia right now. There's every reason in every country to wash your hands.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

But now Close has taken on the new role of activist.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Philip Mudd,former chief of the FBI's National Security Division, says the Pakistani Taliban, based in Pakistan's tribal areas, has drawn close to Al Qaida and now has international aspirations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"The major parts of health-care reform that the president sought to have enacted as a candidate are now very close to happening and he thinks the commonality between the two proposals overlaps quite a bit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27