Users were astounded that places in Downtown Boston were so close together in terms of time.

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"The two games are so close together that they were always going to be played at the same venue, " added Cumbes.

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Fusion is the process of forcing the nuclei of atoms so close together that they fuse into a nucleus of a new element. (Fission, of course, is the opposite: energy produced by splitting nuclei.) The new, fused nucleus weighs less than the original two.

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They have spent so much time together and there is a very close bond between them.

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So Berkman took off, holding the stitched together passes close to the vest.

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They keys have the same flat, close-together design they always had, so don't be put off if you see these on the shelf at Best Buy.

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So last year the NHL had one really good team, two really bad teams, and the rest were pretty close together.

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