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near misses

n. (plural of near miss English)

Usage examples of "near misses".

A volley of near misses from the B-wing's ground laser blazed past the Falcon, bouncing off the shields and rattling the ship.

Well to seaward of the convoy, framed in the climbing water plumes from two near misses, was a ship, indistinct in the scattering spray.

Warheads detonated behind him and missiles fizzled past in near misses.

Aram KA'PPAed amid Brim's violent maneuvering and the murderous near misses.

Gaping holes here and there told of many near misses, but the area through which the cable had to pass was now a gigantic crater that glowed from within and vomited forth a dense smoke pillar as the underlying rock formations themselves burned from the hellfire of Brim's disruptors.