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near miss
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near miss
close call, close shave, close squeak, collision, collision course, confrontation, crack-up, crash, encounter, error, hairbreadth escape, joining, meeting, miss, mistake, narrow escape, narrow squeak, near go, near miss, near thing, rencontre, slip, slipup, tight squeezeFor further exploring for "near miss" in Webster Dictionary Online