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 The skeleton, found in the Khuren Dukh locality of the Eastern Gobi Basin in Mongolia, belongs to a new species of pachycephalosaur called Zavacephale rinpoche and dates back 108 million to 115 million years ago, according to a paper published in Nature on Wednesday. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025 Advanced multitenant systems build on the principle of data locality, ensuring that each client's data and interactions or prompts remain contained and are never used to train models that could serve others. Khash Kiani, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 The evidence comes from sauropod bones unearthed at the Ibirá locality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025 One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for locality
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Noun
  • This is only Wild Eggs location in Louisville participating, according to the restaurant's Facebook page.
    Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The popular chain has triggered tie-ups in other locations.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For capybara lovers who may not be quite ready to own an exotic pet, the following are places to visit them in the commonwealth.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Determine family meeting places and make sure to include an out-of-town location in case of evacuation.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • All across the locker room, guys were eager to flush Seattle’s 38-35 loss to the Bucs and exit the venue.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The new venue was the North Seattle apartment building Daugaard had proposed more than a year earlier.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Contractors who participate in the FORTIFIED program get certified, and there’s a directory available on the site.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For the second half of the payment, once Mandel Group pays its annual taxes on the site, the city will give Mandel Group a rebate check back on 75% of the developer's taxes each year.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Locality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locality. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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