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  1. close to homeadverb

    Affecting people close to, or within, ones family circle.

Wikidata

  1. Close to Home

    Close to Home is an American crime drama television series co-produced by Warner Bros. Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS. While in pre-production the series was known as American Crime. It first aired from October 4, 2005 to May 11, 2007 and starred actress Jennifer Finnigan as Annabeth Chase, a Deputy Prosecutor for Marion County, Indiana. Created by Jim Leonard, the series was primarily filmed in Southern California. The score composer was Michael A. Levine. On May 16, 2007, the series was officially canceled by CBS.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of close to home in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of close to home in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of close to home in a Sentence

  1. Fred Espenak:

    The sad fact is, most eclipses don't occur close to home like (the one in August), so you can't drive to them. It requires being willing to do some international traveling, and you got to be OK with that, it's not something you can do on a shoestring, usually.

  2. Khalil Ferebee:

    With all these killings going on, I never expected this to happen so close to home, he left a close and tight family, with each other every day, talking to each other every day.

  3. Dmitri Trenin:

    This is a conflict that reaches pretty deep into the psyche of the Russian people. It's not a foreign conflict. ... It's something very close to home, this is something that's at the back of a lot of people's minds, and in particular, people with sons of draft age are worried.

  4. Matt Webb:

    Pfizers Covid-19 vaccine's nice to play offense for a change, making sure that we can vaccinate people as close to home as possible is really important.

  5. Joo Alves:

    Finding things close to home is very useful, it means they are not too faint nor too blurred for further detailed exploration, [an] astronomers dream.

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