"hairsbreadth" meaning in English

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          "text": "[...] I ſee you are obſequious in your loue, and I profeſſe requitall to a haires bredth, [...]",
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          "text": "[I]t was characteristic of this man, as it is of all men similarly marked, that whatever he did, he overdid, though it were sometimes by only a hair's-breadth [...]",
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          "text": "In Avatar the spectacular rides to the rescue and hairsbreadth escapes have the whole film behind them and because of that are dramatically and emotionally satisfying."
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