vicinity
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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
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
No parking or waiting restrictions will make driving through the city centre and its vicinity difficult, even for drop-offs.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
It was rumored that, before he entered a town, he would ask a few people in the vicinity what was news in the area.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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
In the meantime, the Polybius comes in a box containing books for Peter Carr, and for some of my friends in Williamsburg and its vicinities.
From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson
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