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 New York state and its localities are the national high-tax leaders, having collected the most taxes per person—23% more than second-place California and 79% more than the national average, per the report. Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025 If approved, those recommendations are then adopted as the standard of care for clinicians around the country, used by states and localities to inform laws and regulations around immunization—particularly for things like school attendance. Eyal Press, New Yorker, 11 June 2025 Senate Republicans have already tweaked the restriction to make billions of dollars in federal broadband funding contingent on states and localities not regulating AI. Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 11 June 2025 The localities argued that those new rules were unconstitutional and that the president didn’t have the authority to set grant conditions beyond what Congress has established. Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for locality
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Noun
  • However, when the driver arrived at the location, nobody was there and all calls to Salinas' phone went to voicemail.
    Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • As for the location, also inspired by Hunter’s upbringing in the Valley, Oyelowo could also relate: He’s lived in places like Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Tarzana for nearly 20 years.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Second place finalist was Ingrid R. from California, who earned a $250,000 prize.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 June 2025
  • Down a meandering Candy Land-like path is a place called Snowdrop’s Cottage.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Daniel Danker, the chief product officer at Instacart, was among the early risers at the venue.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Monday’s show was the final of a series of five hometown concerts at the New York City venue as part of the singer-songwriter’s current tour A Quiet Celebration.
    David Chiu, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Little’s office did not comment to the Statesman on whether U.S. bombings on Iran’s nuclear-weapons sites had any impact on the airmen.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2025
  • While Warp has a network of 50 cross-docks and more than 10,000 vehicles, this marks the first robot-native site for the company.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 June 2025

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“Locality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locality. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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