locally

adverb

lo·​cal·​ly ˈlō-k(ə-)lē How to pronounce locally (audio)
1
: with respect to a particular place or situation
2
: nearby
3
: in the region of origin

Examples of locally in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This is the only trivia night Sean Hendrickson attends locally because of the trivia, the food and the service. Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024 Operating locally, statewide and nationally, the league empowers voters and defends democracy through advocacy, education and legal action. Yan Zhao, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024 One or two players can game locally, and there's an online version that supports up to eight. Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024 Some women were locally famous, others had been forgotten. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024 The club is one of the longest-running philanthropic social groups in Carlsbad and does volunteer work locally and globally. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024 Matter is a new smart home interoperability standard designed to provide a common language for connected devices to communicate locally in your home without relying on a cloud connection. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 7 Mar. 2024 On Tuesday, Continuum publicized an agreement with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, an umbrella group of construction worker unions, to build Fourth & Central with all union labor, including requirements that workers be hired locally. Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024 The 30-seat dining room offers dishes like king crab with pork cheeks and caramelized Belle de Boskoop apple with milk and woodruff, and the 15 sunlit guest rooms have locally handmade beds and glass sculptures by Ellen Ehk and Markus Åkesson. New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1773, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of locally was in 1773

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“Locally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/locally. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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