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Take the incomplete metric space X=(0,1) with its usual distance, and
An​=(0,1/(n+1)]⊂X.​
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Each is nonempty and closed relative to X: it is X∩(−∞,1/(n+1)]. The sequence is strictly descending and its diameters are 1/(n+1)→0. Its intersection is empty, since every positive point exceeds 1/(n+1) for sufficiently large n. The excluded limiting point is zero.

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