near miss

Mark Mandel Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
Mon Oct 1 15:12:31 UTC 2001


I see the ambiguity here as the difference between two constructions that I
would write as
 1. near-miss
 2. near miss

(1), meaning  uses "near" to modify the appropriateness of the noun "miss":
It was



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