People hate to take a loss, especially when a gain is so tantalizingly close.

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After this month's Senate reshuffle, Harry Reid is going to be tantalizingly close to breaking the barrier.

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Sharp shifts in the political landscape have put an immigration overhaul tantalizingly close for Munoz and the president.

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Now the debut of the new version, dubbed the C7, is tantalizingly close.

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As a result, Google is tantalizingly close to successfully running the table on all of the US trademark challenges to its AdWords practices.

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In a sport whose revenues have been steadily declining, the prospect of an infusion of slots money was tantalizingly close, but as far as away as Albany from Ozone Park.

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My sprawling Hill Cottage was tantalizingly close to ready when I arrived at Blackberry Farm a few hours before check-in time, but as it turned out, I wasn't quite ready for the cottage.

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