Close
Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.
Expresses
Both words in one sentence
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Envy expresses surprise that the two of them are that close, at which point she tells him she was lying, but he'd already given himself away.
Source: Spot the Imposter -
He Knows Too Much: Thurston notices that the cult apparently makes a habit of murdering those who get too close to the truth about Cthulhu, and he expresses fear that it might also happen to him too.
Source: Literature / The Call of Cthulhu - In Symposium of Post-Mysticism, Buddhist monk Byakuren Hijiri describes her state as being close to Enlightenment and expresses a strong desire to meet her and recruit her to her temple.
Source: Oxymoronic Being
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