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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hereabouts
Adverb
  • The partnership between two outsiders clawing their way in, joined by an equally canny journalist played by Claire Foy, comes to shape Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare where scribblers plied their trade, in Lamb’s and Murdoch’s images.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Shares of Nvidia which had initially declined slightly after the earnings report, reversed course and increased by more than 5% in after hours trading as company executives discussed the results on the conference call.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Aug. 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 begin, park at the Merry-Go-Round Lot 1 or nearby, keeping in mind that sometimes parking lots in the area close for setup and equipment for Shakespeare in the Park.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Officials told Indian media outlets that whatever fell off the glacier may have dropped into a glacial lake and blocked a river, resulting in the massive wave of ice, water and debris that plowed through settlements nearby.
    Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • With those sessions behind the team, the season creeps closer.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Although when seen up close or for prolonged periods, the digital dinos are remarkably bland and unimpressive — I was reminded of the notoriously bad CGI in the woeful Ray Bradbury movie A Sound of Thunder (2005).
    Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • And then there are other equipment ideas that aren’t as far along, inspired by Coke’s desire to branch out into dirty soda, refreshers and coffee.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Only once that foundation is in place does the more surprising part of Friedman's research become relevant—what separates teams that clear this bar from those that merely limp along.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Today will be a hot seat to come by, with closing arguments and a potential verdict expected.
    Sumiko Corley, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Jobs were harder to come by and the pendulum had shifted back toward employers.
    Maria Colacurcio, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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“Hereabouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hereabouts. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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