vicinity
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At 20:05 on Saturday Jersey Airport said it was "experiencing disruption.... affecting inbound flights as a result of further drone activity in the vicinity of the airfield".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
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
Thus one could imagine that one could create or find a wormhole that would lead from the vicinity of the Solar System to Alpha Centauri.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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 answer was that all of Lion Air’s accidents happened during takeoffs and landings and therefore at relatively low speed, either on runways or in their immediate obstacle-free vicinities.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
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
I am told by Japanese ladies that the problem of securing domestics in the cities or in the vicinities of factories is becoming serious.
From Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick
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