hereabouts

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Recent Examples of hereabouts 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 Back before the local teams began winning national championships, the Beanpot was indeed an end in itself, a year’s worth of bragging rights and a significant recruiting tool hereabouts. John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023 Or maybe the good people of Shell Lake and hereabouts earned it by putting out the small-town, big-hearted welcome mat. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2022 Unfortunately, there was not enough room to accommodate the huge crowd that came to the Energy Center last month for the discussion about what to do about tree loss hereabouts. Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2020 To meet a certain piano player called Reg Dwight, who I’ve been informed will be somewhere hereabouts. Harper's BAZAAR, 28 May 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hereabouts
Adverb
  • So grab a plate, settle in, and let these films take you back to the yard—where the music never stops, the bonds run deep, and every Homecoming feels like family coming home again.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As long as sports remains the straw that stirs TV’s drink, the ad dollars will continue to roll right in.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The sides that are going to be there or thereabouts are now there or thereabouts.
    SI.com, SI.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The big brands are scrambling to design V4 liter bikes—sport bikes with 1000cc engines, or thereabouts—and making major noise about the V4’s triumphant return to public roads.
    Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
Adverb
  • The guardsmen would be a deterrent, and also be available nearby to assist CMPD officers who will still be making arrests.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The bombers also targeted a bar in the busy tourist strip, as well as the American consulate nearby.
    Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Delhi has been consistently prioritizing cold interests over all else—engaging with the junta in Myanmar, refraining from openly criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, engaging both Iran and Israel, and getting closer toward recognizing the Taliban as Afghanistan’s official government.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The two met while filming The Parent Trap and have remained close ever since.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Hereabouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hereabouts. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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