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around

adverb as in situated on sides, circumference, or in general area

adverb as in close to a place

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The number of people already collecting unemployment checks, meanwhile, likely hovered around a four-year high of 1.93 million near the end of September.

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Some of it was pedestrian: He released around 130 albums, all told, and not everything can be a masterpiece.

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"At around that time, my mum started to develop dementia, and I felt I was being pulled in so many different directions," she explained to presenter Anita Rani.

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The Dutch government says more than half of the country's 360 species of bee are at risk of extinction, as the population of bees declines around the world.

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The around 20 lawyers from eight countries called on authorities in Burkina Faso to immediately release Guy Herve Kam, who is accused of participation in a "conspiracy".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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