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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

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Adverb

Phones, tablets, and laptops that support DisplayPort Alt Mode can connect without relying on wireless casting, and compatible Nintendo Switch setups plug straight in without a dock.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
Year in and year out, the footwear sector continues to deepen their commitments to charitable efforts.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of in

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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

Adverb

With the pyramids, the Sphinx, and the museum located nearby, some visitors may choose to spend two or three nights in Cairo rather than making a shorter stop.

— Connie Etemadi, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
Following the event, the president and first lady entered the Beast and took a short drive to Marine One parked nearby on the tarmac for their return to the White House.

— Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of nearby

Adverb

The anime’s first part closed with the disturbances tied to the body-swap curse largely resolved, and with Reirin and Keigetsu having grown closer after coming to understand each other through the experience.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Portland took an early lead, but the Pride showed fight and kept it close before collapsing in the last 20 minutes.

— Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of close

Adverb

Prince William was even seen pulling out his phone during Kate’s holiday delay, widely believed to be calling a protection officer to have her move along and catch up.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Rubin nods along to those moments — which could have been trimmed and transformed JAŸ-Z in 8 into JAŸ-Z in 6 or maybe JAŸ-Z in 4 — with the same enthusiasm as when Carter actually breaks something down perceptively.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of along

Adverb

But floor time is hard to come by before an impending recess.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026
Odin was supposed to fly by and study a near-Earth asteroid, but AstroForge had trouble establishing communications with the spacecraft, which ended up being lost.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026

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