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hereabouts

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Recent Examples of hereabouts 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 See All Example Sentences for hereabouts

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The writers want to have the same quality and reward the intelligence of the fans and never phone a single thing in.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
As Neptune goes retrograde, anxiety creeps in at the realization of your fallibility.

— USA TODAY, USA Today, 7 July 2026

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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
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

Definition of thereabouts

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The district, which plans to send out an inspector, could determine whether wind carrying coal dust stored nearby may be contaminating the sugar.

— Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
As the sounds of fighting increased nearby, Al-Zaharnah decided to leave with his wife and youngest son.

— Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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The very first review samples will, if previous years’ experience is anything to go by, be handed to select press on the day of the keynote — certainly not before.

— David Phelan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
For all his spectacular beauty, the sable is generally not the most difficult of animals to come by, once the hunter is in sable country.

— Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026

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