thereabout

Example Sentences

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"It will take around 72 hours or thereabout for the airlines to normalise their operations," Chiong told ANC news channel.

From Reuters • Jan. 2, 2023

I know there is much science and lore and religion around true barbecue, and I dare not make any pronouncements thereabout.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2020

Jackson ought to have gone to the Old World, to Ireland or Iceland and other places thereabout, where people seldom bungee-jump and the ancient and the modern often appear to live in uneasy alliance.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2013

They arrived at 03:00 or thereabout and by day-break they were being attended to by Nigerian Red Cross officers in front of press and TV cameras!

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2013

It could truly be said that every plantation thereabout “at its garden gate, has an oyster-bed, a fishing-bar, and a ducking blind.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry