around about

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: approximately : roughly
We got home around about 8 o'clock.

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One problem with this story is that there was a lot of misinformation floating around about exactly what was happening here. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025 Even the bicycle had only been around about a half a century. Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2024 Nothing except a white man who willingly admits being apathetic to Black people’s lives and two other white folks who joke around about politics being too serious and divisive. Melanie Curry, refinery29.com, 17 Feb. 2025 There are a lot of ideas floating around about how to do this, from overhauling how lenders like the IMF and World Bank are governed to debt cancellation and closing tax loopholes. Benji Jones, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See All Example Sentences for around about

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“Around about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/around%20about. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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