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abroad 1 of 2

adverb

Definition of abroadnext
1
as in afloat

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2
as in elsewhere

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abroad

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adjective

as in vacationing

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Recent Examples of abroad
Adverb
Crucially, after another summer of rumours, Lautaro Martinez remains and will be crucial at home and abroad. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Streamers like Netflix are also increasingly filming abroad while producing fewer shows overall. — Sam Roseme, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026 Swiss cinema is resonating domestically and abroad as homegrown films and international co-productions continue to entice local audiences and festival goers around the globe. — Ed Meza, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 Peyton Stewart was a 21-year-old international business major who grew up with her sister in Westwood, New Jersey, studied abroad in London and interned at TikTok. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026 In 2008, about 18,400 African missionaries had served abroad, according to one estimate. — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 That’s what led him to his job as CEO of Bloomingdale’s in 2023, after spending years leading retailers abroad, first at Galeries Lafayette in Paris, then at Central Group in Bangkok. — Hilary Milnes, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026 It was later recommended that he be transported abroad for specialized observation and precautionary monitoring. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 The Brazil advisory comes amid other recent State Department warnings for Americans traveling abroad. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Adjective
The pair, who were both studying at the International Christian University in Tokyo, met during a study-abroad event at a restaurant in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 Congress looks increasingly deadlocked, public opposition to his aggressive moves at home and abroad mounts, and the central issue for many Americans – cost-of-living concerns – defies easy solutions. — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026 Ultimately, linking his story to abroad conversation around CTE. — MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abroad
  1. afloat
  2. elsewhere
  3. departed
  4. everywhere
  5. afield
  6. retired
  7. hereabouts
  8. afar
Adverb
  • Are Chris Brooks and Kaleb Johnson good enough to keep that room afloat in a by-committee approach?
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Rohrwacher, who already shined in the director’s 2023 seaside romance Out of Season, brings plenty of soul to a character striving within a crushing system, trying to do the right thing but also stay afloat in a cutthroat corporation.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of afloat
Adverb
  • Cooling and hydration hardware designed for a race car, not adapted from elsewhere.
    — Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • But in late July, the Wittes told families Nova Roots was closing, leaving them scrambling to enroll their children elsewhere.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of elsewhere
Adjective
  • Judaism approaches these moments with deep sensitivity, offering guidance not to judge or criticize, but to bring dignity, comfort, and peace—to the soul of the departed and to those left behind.
    — Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of departed
Adverb
  • But in his first flush of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his murallike tableaus of flowers, the cosmos and cartoonish figures -- all in vivid colors like turquoise, orange and neon green -- seemed to be everywhere.
    — BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Temperatures peak at 90 degrees in Orlando and Leesburg, while being in the high 80s everywhere else.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of everywhere
Adverb
  • To answer these questions, a team of astronomers searched further afield, looking for faint satellite galaxies around three galaxies.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Debris that appeared to be from a Chinese ballistic missile found in Yemen pointed to the growing use of Beijing’s military hardware in conflicts far afield, which may raise worries in the US.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of afield
Adjective
  • Alliant Credit Union Mortgages Learn More Membership requirements Current or retired employees from partner organizations and those who live or work in some Chicago-area zip codes.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Nationally, the average monthly cut would be $500, which is more than what the average retired household spends on groceries each month.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of retired
Adverb
  • This time the recipient is area rancher Benjamin Bonney (Dermot Mulroney), who along with his thuggish sons is suspected of murdering anyone hereabouts who won’t surrender their own land to him.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Blame the damp and moderate climate hereabouts or the particular ardor of the northern red-legged frog, but our target species is ready to hop anytime between early November and the middle of March.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
Definition of hereabouts
Adverb
  • That telepathy, between head coach and assistant, should put Deschamps’ sporting mind at rest even from afar.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • From afar, Silva, who lives in Iowa, has watched her sister’s anguish deepen with no word from her husband.
    — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
Definition of afar

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