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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.
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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
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
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The moment Princely Umanmielen was introduced to Carolina Panthers fans — as in, truly introduced — didn’t arrive when he was drafted, or during rookie minicamp, or at any of those other offseason workouts.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
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So, that was a good learning experience and a humbling experience of being on the outside and trying to weasel my way in.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The sides that are going to be there or thereabouts are now there or thereabouts.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
28 Oct. 2019
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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
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His 5-year-old great-grandson stands nearby, already in a little apron, already touching the clay.—
Dada Jovanovic,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Jean’s mama, in a kente-print muumuu (as much out of self-consciousness about middle-aged weight gain, Jean figured, as in celebration of the day), hovered nearby, smiling on.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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When does Mackinac Island close?—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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The whole thing has actually brought us closer.—
Zhong Lin,
Allure,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Hereabouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hereabouts. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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