Near is used with these nouns as the subject:
deadline

Near is used with these nouns as the object:
climax, coast, completion, death, destination, end, exhaustion, limit, mark, maturity, retirement, saturation

Near is used with these nouns:
anarchy, certainty, edge, escape, extinction, future, hysteria, kin, monopoly, neighbour, obscurity, perfection, post, relation, relative, shore, side, standstill, vicinity

Near is used with these adjectives:
impossible, perfect, universal

Near is used with these verbs:
lean