Sam Kean

The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.

American Writer

S. Jay Olshansky

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

American Scientist

Malcolm Turnbull

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

Australian Politician

Ann Wilson

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

American Musician

William James

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

American Philosopher

George Whitefield

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

English Clergyman

Robert Bolt

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

British Playwright

Alan Patricof

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.

American Businessman

Bernard Baruch

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Use 'nigh' when something is about to happen soon.

Time Imminence

It adds a sense of urgency or need for immediate attention.

Emphasizing Urgency

'Nigh' in this sense refers to closeness in distance.

Physical Proximity

Often used for something within sight or a short distance.

Visual Nearness

'Nigh' as a preposition means being physically close to something.

Direct Proximity

This uses 'nigh' to talk about environments or areas very close by.

Immediate Surroundings

'Nigh' side can refer to aspects beyond physical location, like agreement.

Not Just Physical

Choosing the 'nigh' option can imply preference or convenience.

Preference Implication

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