near miss
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] two aircraft, one flying level across the field, another climbing after a missed approach, had an extremely near miss, in my estimation, less than 50 feet, before the lower pilot saw the higher aircraft and broke violently to the right in the darkness."
- "The first wave, 24 dive bombers, fell on her through broken clouds; she took two hits and an uncomfortably close near miss."
- "[…] it concludes that when the number of 'near misses' are considered, "we have been extremely fortunate that we have not been discussing much higher fatality figures, given that a significant number of track workers have 'got clear' within a few seconds or less of passing trains"."
- "Japan has voiced “serious concern” over a near miss involving one of its military planes and a Chinese fighter jet in the Pacific, where recent manoeuvres by Chinese aircraft carrier groups have raised tensions across the region."
- "In recent years there have been two fatalities and one near miss due to the inappropriate use of boom trucks."
- "As in New York City’s Times Square seven months ago, hundreds of innocent bystanders might have been killed. Fortunately, the would-be terrorist was the only fatality."
Inflected Forms
near misses (plural)
near-miss (alternative)