within reach
idiom
1
: close enough to be touched or picked up : nearby
He kept a dictionary within reach.
2
: close enough to be achieved
Victory was within reach.
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But supporters of investment in Greenland argue that new mining techniques, combined with the melting of some ice due to a warming climate, could make those once-inaccessible minerals within reach.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
Even reviving dinosaurs appeared to be within reach when, a few years later, papers reported the presence of DNA fragments in the remains of ancient reptiles that had gone extinct eighty million years ago.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Sterling showed me that greatness was within reach.
—Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Joe Sakic, 10th in points at 1,641, could be within reach next season.
◾ Goalies scored on: Ovechkin already leads in this category with 181 goalies in his 20 years.
—Jim Sergent, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
Even reviving dinosaurs appeared to be within reach when, a few years later, papers reported the presence of DNA fragments in the remains of ancient reptiles that had gone extinct eighty million years ago.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Sterling showed me that greatness was within reach.
—Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Joe Sakic, 10th in points at 1,641, could be within reach next season.
◾ Goalies scored on: Ovechkin already leads in this category with 181 goalies in his 20 years.
—Jim Sergent, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Within reach.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20reach. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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