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What does hairsbreadth mean?

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Noun
  1. a very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair)
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In the process of attempting to reunify Korea, the Northern-based army unleashed a powerful social revolution in the South and came within a hairsbreadth of driving the U. S. imperialist army off the peninsula.
I think, mamma, I never depart a hairsbreadth from your will.
I would take good care not to lean a hairsbreadth towards radicalism.
Not by a hairsbreadth has all that has passed in the interval lowered you in my eyes.
It's a book within a hairsbreadth of the landing strip, and its excitement comes from watching one of the greatest careers in modern letters make its final, unsettled preparations to touch down.
He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at length he was brought by his master, Kakinathucca, to his home.

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