hereabouts

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Recent Examples of hereabouts And while the absence of a hometown rooting interest obviously won’t translate into a total baseball blackout hereabouts, only someone who’s been clobbered over the head by Wonderboy might expect to see the World Series ratings reach the heights of last year. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hereabouts
Adverb
  • Aztecs fans, getting a workout in, stood and clapped for the entire drought.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Netflix’s live-action One Piece is deep into production on Season 3, with the beloved Arabasta arc taking center stage, a wave of new casting locked in, and stars teasing a darker, more mature tone ahead.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
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
  • To get the lowdown on the city itself, head to the fabulously pink-fronted Madrid History Museum nearby.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Shortly after the stool is thrown, her daughter, who was nearby on the sofa during the fight, can be heard crying.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • The closer their driver got to the Flames’ home rink, the worse the traffic got until they were hopelessly stuck in gridlock still several blocks from the arena.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The Suns climbed closer later in the third, twice getting to within three on a Grayson Allen step-through layup and yet another Booker bucket.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • The first time Jackson went on trial, in April, 11 of the jurors were ready to convict immediately but a lone holdout refused to go along and wouldn’t entertain any discussions about the evidence against Jackson, according to prosecutors.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Volunteers were there, handing out clipboards and information to keep things moving along as voters made their way inside.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Nick is hired by a mafia don to confirm and then steal a priceless manuscript said to be Dante’s original Divine Comedy in his own hand, dragging Nick into an underworld he’s both repulsed by and complicit in.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
  • According to court records, 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee was outside her North Port home with her two sons — a toddler and an infant — in January 2008 when King drove by and spotted her.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026

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