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abroad

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adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for abroad
Adverb
  • But his unusual presence at an ICE raid garnered widespread media coverage elsewhere.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
  • While free-agent slugger Pete Alonso makes the most sense to fill that void, president of baseball operations David Stearns could be looking elsewhere for external solutions.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • These songs hide surprises everywhere: interludes of mechanical scraping; yodels and chants; North West (daughter of Kanye) rapping in Japanese for some reason.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The windows featured goats floating on cashmere clouds, little flocks of sheep, old-fashioned wooden mills and bales of wool everywhere.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These spirits not only provide a thoughtful toast to the departed but also serve as a reminder of Mexico’s deep traditions and reverence for the past.
    Rachel King, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Joining the core trio of Corgan, Iha and Chamberlin were bassist Jack Bates and guitarist Kiki Wong, who famously won the post from the departed Jeff Schroeder after a public casting call of more than 10,000.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
Adverb
  • This time the recipient is area rancher Benjamin Bonney (Dermot Mulroney), who along with his thuggish sons is suspected of murdering anyone hereabouts who won’t surrender their own land to him.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Clearly someone wants to scare them off from uncovering whatever dark hidden truth controls much of life (and death) hereabouts.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
Adverb
  • In a multipolar world, where countries and companies have to ‘take sides’, where America will arguably become more transactional and less relationship driven in its foreign policy and, where democracy is being eroded from within and afar, moral courage will be at a premium.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Some had come from afar to compete—occasionally very, very afar.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The current 2025-26 budget proposal includes $918 million for salary bumps and increasing health care costs for active and retired employees that the state previously agreed to.
    William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2025
  • His character is described as a retired superspy who heads for the destination wedding of his estranged son, and finds himself in proximity with his archrival.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
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