vicinity
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The fire started around noon in the vicinity of the Encino Reservoir, near the 4500 block of North Encino Avenue, the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
At the time of the explosion, there were approximately 300 people in the vicinity of baggage claim, but there was no evidence to suggest any had been a target.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
When O’Brien lobbed questions at Richards, many of the guitarist’s answers were undiscernible; he seemed uninterested in keeping his microphone in the vicinity of his mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
National Guard troops have been spotted in the vicinity of the venue in recent days, a not uncommon sight under a state-level deployment to secure major venues and transit hubs in the Big Apple.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
He had no intention of eating in his family’s house, and was perfecting several excuses to remove himself from the vicinity at the last moment.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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
He is therefore unmolested for the most part, whether he walks down the streets of his home town or wanders the byways of dangerous vicinities.
From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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