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adverb

Definition of abroadnext
1
as in afloat

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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
Kendall Jenner both sported their own UPF clothing and accessories during her vacation abroad on her Euro Summer. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 For centuries, our shores have welcomed those from abroad looking for the opportunity to grow, build, and achieve. — Nancy Hagans, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026 Experimental Klotho treatments are already available abroad, with prices reaching well into six figures. — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2026 The ruling concerns how recipients of DACA may travel abroad and their ability to obtain green cards. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026 The proposal is part of the Senate Finance Committee’s Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act discussion draft, which includes several provisions aimed specifically at Americans living abroad. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Chris Jackson/Getty Images If Kate Middleton is indeed joining the trip, this will be the couple’s first (official) joint trip abroad in more than three years. — Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 15 Aug. 2026 Beijing sees green tech as a source of energy security, future prosperity and influence abroad. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 15 Aug. 2026 Disliked, even hated, by millions of his countrymen, and despised by possibly billions abroad, Trump has a target on his back. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 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
  • But done properly, with the right advice, buying a project can save you time and money, and get you afloat while your friends who ordered new builds are still arguing with their designer about door handles.
    — Benjamin Maltby, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • So, who is the savior lead investor that will keep LIV afloat?
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of afloat
Adverb
  • One person, an 83-year-old man, was killed by a drone attack elsewhere in Moscow region on Sunday, according to Vorobiev.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • According to The Wadsworth, there were long lines to get in to the MATRIX space and a big turnout for the opening reception and for the live band playing elsewhere in the museum.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 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
  • On social media, influencers are everywhere, sharing shopping recommendations and lifestyle content or promoting beliefs about health or politics.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • As luxury becomes both more ubiquitous and more expensive, being desirable without being everywhere could prove a valuable position to hold.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of everywhere
Adverb
  • The best hunters are those that, over many years afield, have committed to memory mental photographs of habitat that produced and those that did not.
    — Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Farther afield is the rest of the center, which includes a museum, offices for the Obama Foundation, several basketball courts, a branch of the Chicago Public Library, and a playground.
    — Kate Wagner, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of afield
Adjective
  • For the average beneficiary, the group estimates, that would amount to roughly $500 less a month—a cut larger than the average retired household’s monthly grocery spending.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • If there is no stopping, retired park superintendent Bob Krumenaker said what could happen in Big Bend would rival the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley a century ago, an event that changed arguments about preserving the environment.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 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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