to the nearest
idiom
—used to indicate the number of pounds, dollars, etc., that is closest to a slightly higher or lower number or amount
What is the weight of your baggage to the nearest pound?
$13.75 rounded up to the nearest dollar is $14.
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She’s rushed to the nearest hospital, where she is pronounced brain-dead.
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Brea Baker, Refinery29, 22 May 2025
The evening of July 4, 2021, Byron Stribling rushed to get his wife, pregnant with their first child, to the nearest hospital, about 30 miles away.
—Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 22 May 2025
For that reason, Orange County emergency services guidelines direct paramedics to transport certain stroke patients to the nearest stroke receiving center.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
Based on three gas deposits discovered more than 40 years ago, Browse was originally planned as a project piping gas to the nearest landfall at James Price Point near Broome on WA’s Kimberley coast.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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Brea Baker, Refinery29, 22 May 2025
The evening of July 4, 2021, Byron Stribling rushed to get his wife, pregnant with their first child, to the nearest hospital, about 30 miles away.
—Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 22 May 2025
For that reason, Orange County emergency services guidelines direct paramedics to transport certain stroke patients to the nearest stroke receiving center.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
Based on three gas deposits discovered more than 40 years ago, Browse was originally planned as a project piping gas to the nearest landfall at James Price Point near Broome on WA’s Kimberley coast.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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“To the nearest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20the%20nearest. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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