as in location
the area or space occupied by or intended for something a locality filled with exotic plants

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Recent Examples of locality To that end, Kamb eventually developed a hypothesis that locality and equivariance lead to creativity. Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2025 Texas already has a law in place preventing state spending from rising faster than the rate of population growth and inflation, but localities do not face a similar restriction. Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025 The Reason Foundation went so far as to conclude, based upon experiences in other localities, that San Diego could save an average of 10% to 25%, up to $200 million annually, by using a competitive bidding process. Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2025 Drawing on cultural influences, locality, and client lifestyles, Studio IDC aims to curate visually exquisite and functional spaces. Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for locality
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Noun
  • Rain bands in Erin's expanding quadrants raked Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Saturday night, with heavy rain and tropical storm force wind gusts of 40 - 50 mph, prompting flash flood warnings in some locations.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Lassiter-Barber was pronounced dead at the location of the incident.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Come spring and summer, those same doors roll up to the ceiling, transforming Gabbiano’s into an open-air gathering place where the boundary between indoors and out all but disappears.
    Chelsea Frank, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Fold your blankets, stack books your and magazines, and basically tidy up the place to reset your home every night.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The venue is at 50 W. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Codify it in your phone favorites so panic doesn’t pick the venue.
    John Samuels, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Toward the end of the video, as Moulton joined other officers and search dogs to look for his suspect, he was called back to the crash site.
    Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The theft occurred at the new church site near the intersection of Old Weatherford Road and Rolling Creek Run, which is a couple of miles away from the current church location.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2025

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“Locality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locality. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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