Crossword clues - Answer
NEARS
NEARS is a 5-letter crossword answer with 2 clues in this pilot. Across those clues it has 408 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
NEARS
NEARS
5Letters
2Clues in pilot
408Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for NEARS in this pilot
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- Approaches - used 329 times across 80 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Gets closer to - used 79 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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