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thing
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thing1
Law any object or right that may be the subject of property (as distinguished from a person)

thing2
a law court or public assembly in the Scandinavian countries


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It was a good idea, but even so, it was a near thing.
It is a near thing when I contemplate who is more despicable: those who perpetrate these crimes or those who seek to build a political advantage upon the broken and bleeding bodies of the victims.
Such a perfect symbiosis of creative talents is all too rare in picture books, and the marvel of the job is, if anything, increased by the equivalent success of its companion work, A Near Thing for Captain Najork (Atheneum), which came out a year later; the two-seater, jam-powered frog is itself sufficient for immortality.
 
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