Close and Pursuing

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Close adjective - Having little space between items or parts.

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

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

Pursuing adjective - Following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit.

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Close and pursuing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Close" instead an adjective "Pursuing".

Nearby Words: pursue, pursuance, pursued, pursuer

Starting in Episode 3, the audience learns that the Meta is in fact pursuing Wash instead, and often at close range (at one point, he hitchhikes on the back of Wash's tank).

Source: Incredibly Obvious Tail
In "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind", Rick opens up various portals to throw off the alternate Ricks pursuing him.

Source: Crossover Punchline
Last Girl Wins: If the focus character or a close friend has been pursuing the same girl across multiple books, it's almost a given he'll run off with the cook in the last installment.

Source: Creator / P. G. Wodehouse

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