Close and Known

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Close adjective - Having little space between items or parts.

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Known and close are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Known" instead an adjective "Close".

Nearby Words: closed, closeness, closing, closely, closure

Known adjective - Apprehended with certainty.

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Close and known are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Close" instead an adjective "Known".

Nearby Words: know, knowing

The attackers may not have known why, but they knew that close contact with dead bodies wasn't good for you.

Source: Cat-apult
He was also offered to play Wolverine for the first X-Men movie, but instead he offered it to his close friend, Hugh Jackman, who was not very well known at that time.

Source: Creator / Russell Crowe
Visually the scene is held close to the well known examples of this trope, but instead of lasers or machine guns the plane uses jelly-miniguns to distribute a cure.

Source: Gunship Rescue

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