How native speakers pronounce “near”

As an example, this is a patient of mine who had a cancer near his knee. Because of humbly curious communication

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he can't do what he just did?" I had the self-preservation instincts of a moth near a bug zapper. (Laughter)

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and the answer is no, I'm not anti-marriage. I've even had a couple near misses. (Laughter)

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His best friend, who he had known since high school, who had moved across the country to be near him, to live with him, in fact.

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is that solar modules in Pakistan are installed near the industrial clusters of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. And actually, if you go on Google Earth

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where oil and gas production is taking place. They're already delivering accurate methane data in near-real time, which is at the heart of making the new EU methane strategy work.

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