as in vicinity
an adjoining region or space
potential jurors were to be drawn from the vicinage in which the crime occurred
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Recent Examples of vicinage
Of the 28 judgeships in vicinage 15, which is made up of Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties, there are nine vacancies.
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Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicinage
vicinity
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The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside — but for the Artemis II astronauts, the capsule taking them to the vicinity of the moon has already proved to be larger than life.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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Its four astronauts—NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen—successfully traveled around the moon, returning humans to the lunar vicinity for the first time in more than a half-century.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Vicinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicinage. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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