亚洲网紅露点

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at close range



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Idioms and Phrases

Very nearby, as in At close range, the rock band was unbearably loud . Derived from shooting鈥 range denotes the distance that missile or projectile can be made to travel鈥攖his expression soon came to mean anything in close proximity.
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Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong'ondo Were's vehicle before one of them got off the motorbike and shot him at close range.

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He was then shot at close range by a Thames Valley Police officer from the armed response unit.

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The military official denied any of the medics were handcuffed before they died and said they were not executed at close range, as some reports had suggested.

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First responders working at close range, often without adequate respiratory protection, were at higher risk of developing adverse health conditions.

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An autopsy found marks on Herman鈥檚 face, torso and arms that the medical examiner said indicated he had been shot at close range.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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