hereabouts

adverb

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Recent Examples of hereabouts This time the recipient is area rancher Benjamin Bonney (Dermot Mulroney), who along with his thuggish sons is suspected of murdering anyone hereabouts who won’t surrender their own land to him. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025 Blame the damp and moderate climate hereabouts or the particular ardor of the northern red-legged frog, but our target species is ready to hop anytime between early November and the middle of March. — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024 Back before the local teams began winning national championships, the Beanpot was indeed an end in itself, a year’s worth of bragging rights and a significant recruiting tool hereabouts. — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023 Or maybe the good people of Shell Lake and hereabouts earned it by putting out the small-town, big-hearted welcome mat. — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2022 Unfortunately, there was not enough room to accommodate the huge crowd that came to the Energy Center last month for the discussion about what to do about tree loss hereabouts. — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2020
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  1. in
  2. thereabouts
  3. nearby
  4. close
  5. along
  6. by
Adverb
  • Reaching 40,000 would mean growing that number roughly eighty-fold in about six years.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Take the quiz here ⦠LISTEN Tune in as Florida's race for governor heats up, with rising living costs, property taxes, insurance rates, and campaign debates taking center stage.
    — , FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of in
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  • The sides that are going to be there or thereabouts are now there or thereabouts.
    — SI.com, SI.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The big brands are scrambling to design V4 liter bikes—sport bikes with 1000cc engines, or thereabouts—and making major noise about the V4’s triumphant return to public roads.
    — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
Definition of thereabouts
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  • There were numerous evacuations nearby, including a school, and several blocks of Midtown were shut down while crews worked to stabilize the building.
    — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of nearby
Adverb
  • That gives the Chiefs a credible path to keeping this close or winning outright.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The Royals could also decline All-Star closer Carlos Estévez’s club option.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of close
Adverb
  • Drake Maye, quarterback for the Patriots, has been further along in the league than his opponent.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Doctors point to how the body regulates its own temperature at night, and how a cozy pair of socks can nudge that process along.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of along
Adverb
  • The Orionids bring streaking fireballs Orionid meteors are known to fly by at high speeds, streaking through Earth’s atmosphere at 41 miles per second (66 kilometers per second).
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
  • If the bag resurgence is anything to go by, the first signs of success will be on TikTok, and then the P&L sheet.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
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