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at close range

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at close range

In close proximity to a person or thing. Typically used to describe a nearby target in shooting. Be careful when firing at close range! At close range, I could see that the scary insect was just a harmless June bug. Can the ballistics team tell us if the victim was shot at close range?
See also: close, range
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at close range

very near; in close proximity. (Usually used in regard to shooting.) The hunter fired at the deer at close range. The powder burns tell us that the gun was fired at close range.
See also: close, range
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

at close range

Very nearby, as in At close range, the rock band was unbearably loud. Derived from shooting- range denotes the distance that missile or projectile can be made to travel-this expression soon came to mean anything in close proximity.
See also: close, range
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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But instead of shooting each at close range with a lightweight handheld camera in pursuit of highly dramatic, compositionally arresting, and instantly legible fragments of larger situations--the photojournalistic norm--he employs large-format, frequently panoramic cameras in order to include vastly more of the scene before him in terms both of lateral extension and of sheer quantity of visual information.
Mr Scott was told at Feldon's veterinary centre, in Guy Street, Leamington, that Watson could have been shot at close range.
"The vet told us it could have been at close range, or, because of the angle, from someone leaning out of a window.
He never expected such a close-range shot to present itself, but because he'd practiced at close range he knew where to aim to make a deadly shot.
Practicing at close range and at steep downward and upward angles is one obvious preparation.
Stallard looped home a header at close range after some impeccable build up.
Two minutes into stoppage time sub Brian Quailey squeezed the ball in from close range for an equaliser, before Flack fired home the winner at close range after Darren Rowbotham's cross.
The striker was completely unmarked after he was picked out by Challis but was denied by Bayes at close range.
But when a hunter becomes stressed or fatigued, the loads can become a bit hard to hit birds with at close ranges, due to those very tight patterns.
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