Usually means: Nearly won, but ultimately lost.
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  1. close-run: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. close-run, close-run: Collins English Dictionary
  3. close-run: Wordnik
  4. close-run: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. close-run: Dictionary/thesaurus
  6. close-run: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Hotly contested; won or achieved only by a small margin.

Similar:
too close to call, hard-run, this close, hard-fought, down to the wire, last minute, hardfought, hot on someone's heels, all over but the shouting, high-stakes, more...

Opposite:
landslide, blowout, decisive, overwhelming

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Similar:
too close to call, hard-run, this close, hard-fought, down to the wire, last minute, hardfought, hot on someone's heels, all over but the shouting, high-stakes, more...

Opposite:
landslide, blowout, decisive, overwhelming



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