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closing

final or ending the closing stages of the election the closing weeks of the year the closing scene of the film closing remarks the act of closing something approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision (= closure) termination of operations they regretted the closure of the day care center (= completion) a concluding action (= conclusion) the last section of a communication in conclusion I want to say...

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Simple sentences

The door is closing.
We heard the door closing.
We'll be closing early today.
The doors were closing.
I feel cold. Do you mind closing the window?
The girl, closing her eyes, listened to the pastor.
Would you mind closing the window?
The Nikkei index jumped dramatically just before closing.
Evening was closing in on the valley.
Today was the school closing ceremony for 2008.
The doors of the train on line 3 are closing. Please be careful.
The store is closing at 7.
I am thinking of closing my savings account.
The vise is closing again.
Caution, the doors are now closing!
Tom is closing the store.
The closing of school was due to the heavy snow.
The commemorative ceremony ended with the closing address.
Would you mind closing the door?
They debated closing the school.
The library is closing.
I'm closing my store.
We are closing the store.
Thank you for closing the door.

Movie subtitles

It's closing off the airway. Can we get the tube in?
Not now the way they're closing down on us.
The park seems to be closing down a bit, sir.
Closing time!
Our closing bell has rung.
Looking at the mummy, just at closing time.
District Attorney Wade intended to make the closing address himself, but as you know, he is in the midst of his campaign for governor.
The police are believed to be closing in on the culprits.
Closing for the night.
All this evening, I've had a feeling of destiny closing in.
The law's closing in.
The police are closing in.
Yeah, they're closing in.
One of young Colley's eyes was closing.
Now closing the bulkhead.
They're closing in!
Your Honor. Before giving my closing argument, I'd like to call a new witness, of whom we were just made aware.
I don't want to take any chances. Not now the way they're closing down on us.
The fog seems to be closing down a bit, sir.
Too busy closing big, important.
Closing your account?
I'm closing it.
We're closing in on him.
And get the furniture covers out, we're closing the house.
We had the books checked last night after closing time.. 2,500 francs are missing.
My husband and your husband are just closing a business deal.
I checked the unpaid debts for the first time closing.
In closing, let me repeat. It is for you to decide which of the evidence is in accordance with the facts.
We'll stay tonight after closing hours and redecorate it.
We are decorating the window after closing hours so we won't have to have dinner with the Laszlos.
We thought the place was closing up.
Closing up?
We're closing now.
This place closing for the weekend will give us a couple days to rest.
Everybody was closing in on me.

News and current affairs

Indeed, in closing their skies, European governments seem to have given safety absolute priority over everything else.
Yet closing the plant proves that we keep our promises.
Closing Chernobyl may be the most dramatic, but it is only a single episode in our reform efforts.
In return, Ukraine will uphold its end of the deal: in addition to closing Chernobyl, we will introduce Western nuclear safety standards and renew cooperation with the IMF via the Extended Fund Facility program.
Closing Chernobyl will not eliminate the Chernobyl threat.
For all the dire warnings that the window for a two-state solution is rapidly closing (or has already closed), it is the solution itself that is the problem.
But both are closing down in many countries.
This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world's developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.
Then, in the closing decades of the twentieth century, a counter-revolution swept the world, pushing for just the opposite: disperse capital as widely as possible by getting everybody involved as owners.
The same proposed policies for closing global trade imbalances also, by and large, help address each country's domestic economic concerns.
Commitments on adaptation in the Paris agreement would go a long way toward closing this gap.
As the adaptation report emphasizes, closing gaps in technology and knowledge is also crucial.
But the window of opportunity is closing fast.
As is well known, closing this deficit requires less spending or more taxes.
In that vein, closing down trade with China, while failing to address the saving shortfall, is like putting pressure on one end of a water balloon.
Such a strategy could lead to the opening of negotiations with Iran, and of course to a further closing of ranks within NATO.
Yet the window of opportunity for an EU-Kazakh partnership may be closing.
The government's closing of democratic and institutional spaces produces responses of a proportional and equivalent force, which in turn tends to expand the political conflict toward areas where force and violence prevail.
Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.

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