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nearby

adjective as in adjoining

adverb as in within reach

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From the time he picked up Bernstein in Lake Forest to the time he fled the nearby park where he had buried Bernstein’s body, just 1½ hours elapsed, the judge said.

The findings offer a new clue to a phenomenon geochemists have documented for years: heavy metal concentrations in streams and rivers tend to spike after nearby wildfires.

In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in red-hot embers.

But in the sediment core, the amount of charcoal debris—an indicator of fire burning nearby plants—more than doubled earlier than that time, starting about 41,600 years ago.

Welding sparks fly nearby as a worker puts finishing touches on the joints in a replica T-rex toe.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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