vicinity
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A warning system would have offered little help for ships in the immediate vicinity, but it could have provided perhaps 10 minutes of warning for those who rode out the harrowing tsunami farther away.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Meeting with his security chiefs on Tuesday, Bulgaria's prime minister said: "Another attack on merchant ships in the immediate vicinity of Bulgarian territorial waters is absolutely unacceptable".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
At this World Cup, they did everything to put the ball in his vicinity, while he stalked around, shunting his way into space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In November 2025, regulators issued violations to contractors there for using equipment during a pipeline pressure test that is prohibited within 1,000 feet of a school, of which there are three in the immediate vicinity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
He combed in the vicinity, and that’s when he heard a voice calling out.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said that 116 Ukrainians had been released — including “defenders of Mariupol, Kherson partisans, snipers from Bakhmut vicinities, and other heroes.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
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 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
Those in the vicinities of larger towns are vendors of fruit, vegetables, milk, cheese, and butter.
From Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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