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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mill (about or around)
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Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, ended up in Texas after a meandering journey through holding facilities in Virginia and Louisiana.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025 -
This process causes the ice block to meander its way down the slope, leaving a deep gully in its wake.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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Both are situated in a stunning al fresco dining hall that hosts roving performers like contortionists and acrobats throughout dinner service.—
Sara Liss,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Oct. 2025
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The two-seater can also be had wearing all-terrain tires for roving through mud or over rocks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Oct. 2025
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Under Dino Toppmoller, Uzun has evolved from Mario Gotze’s understudy last season into a roaming second striker within a direct, vertical system.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Accompanied by a nonchalant guitar performance, dancer and choreographer Dong Jilan, donning a brown velvet dress and having the same long, wavy hair as Sanmao, woke up from a miniature dune and roamed around the set in a highly spiritual and ceremonial fashion.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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From wandering rare palm forests to navigating ancient waterways and spotting hundreds of migrating bird species, outdoor enthusiasts have much to explore.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes, it was described as fantastical, depicting unrealistic and strange juxtapositions, as though the black people in his paintings had wandered into a genre or set of conditions totally discordant with what the viewer considered their actual reality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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The project was built over 10 years, during which the architects combined local materials with advanced engineering to ensure the building’s striking, floating appearance was matched by practical functionality and structural stability.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Oct. 2025
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Since Hereditary floated into theaters in 2018, writer-director Ari Aster has evolved his interests considerably, from the sunny folk-horror of Midsommar (2019) to the phantasmagoric Beau Is Afraid (2023) to the social thriller Eddington (2025).—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Forsberg has been kicking around Pittsburgh for a hair more than a decade now.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Of course, that’s not the only hack kicking around this week.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Mill (about or around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mill%20%28about%20or%20around%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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