nearby
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Gonzalez restarted his device and, until it booted up again, relied on nearby troops to relay his messages up the chain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
When a lawman confirms to Cal the rumor that Cathy, known by then as the nearby town’s madam, Kate, shot his father, Cal muses, “He must have done something to hurt her.”
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Outside a nearby shack Linkie listens with interest as she cleans clothes in a large metal bucket.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
If galaxies were already enriching nearby space only 500 million years after the Big Bang, truly pristine gas may have disappeared quickly.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
First Venus, then Roald, got into rescue helicopters flown by volunteers from Weyerhaeuser and were taken to a nearby hospital.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
