vicinity

The solution is essentially an array of specialized sensors that allows a Digit 5 to reliably detect people in its vicinity and slow its movements the closer someone gets to it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Their crews are at risk if the ships are damaged, and the vessels could capsize if they are in the vicinity of giant ice chunks breaking off glaciers, a process called calving.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

That Amziah apparently knows everyone in the vicinity makes it strange that the focus of the film turns to someone with whom he only recently got reacquainted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

For two, whatever $2 tickets you might find in Anaheim put you in the vicinity of the top of a foul pole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

I mean, the only reason I’d even been in the vicinity was to drop a “present” off for a “friend.”

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

The team also prepared training sessions and webinars available to schools to help them identify potential hazards in their vicinities and structural weaknesses in their buildings.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021

The answer was that all of Lion Air’s accidents happened during takeoffs and landings and therefore at relatively low speed, either on runways or in their immediate obstacle-free vicinities.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019

The community is virtually invisible, with most people working in meat-producing factories in the vicinities while those in town keep an extremely low profile.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2018

Dr Schlegel may thus have found a mechanism by which black holes can switch off star formation in their vicinities.

From Economist ● Jan. 7, 2016

This itinerant picnic was called in some vicinities tuck-a-nuck, an Indian word; also mitchin.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle