up close
adverb or adjective
: at close range
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Fans can also get access to an interactive pre-show party approximately two hours before general admission doors open, for a chance to meet monster truck drivers and see the vehicles up close.
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Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
Perraut would visit her mother's lab as a kid and see those elemental parts of the body up close.
—Gili Malinsky
zachary Green, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
One of the people who has seen this up close is Seth Rogen, who was an unknown 16-year-old when Apatow cast him in Freaks and Geeks.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
That results in silicon sinking deep into the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn and thus avoiding detection by spacecraft that have studied those planets up close.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
Perraut would visit her mother's lab as a kid and see those elemental parts of the body up close.
—Gili Malinsky
zachary Green, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
One of the people who has seen this up close is Seth Rogen, who was an unknown 16-year-old when Apatow cast him in Freaks and Geeks.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
That results in silicon sinking deep into the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn and thus avoiding detection by spacecraft that have studied those planets up close.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for up close
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“Up close.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up%20close. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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