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
  • Nearly 43,000 applications flowed in after the state opened applications in May.
    Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Other quick notes New York didn’t really lean into a five-out lineup when its core players were in.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 2 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
  • Despite the litter washing up onto the beaches nearby, the lagoon itself appeared to be clinging on and the wildlife was flourishing.
    Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes there is no other hospital nearby.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Yankee Candle 22-Ounce Autumn Wreath Candle Nothing compares to the smells of fall, but this delightful candle comes pretty close.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Expect to hear more rumors surrounding Henry and the Ravens as the trade deadline draws closer.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025

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