as in away
from this or that place ferries carrying passengers to and fro

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Recent Examples of fro What is Rassi on the lookout when shopping for new pieces to rock while working fro home? Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 25 May 2021
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Adverb
  • Four 660-pound M30 rockets, each packing 180,000 tungsten fragments, rained down from as far away as 57 miles.
    David Axe, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • That’s nothing to take away from what’s going to happen.
    Adam Leventhal, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • With few options left, Adam begins considering and concocting ways to enact vengeance, but Basem, having been down that rageful path, advises him otherwise.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Mariah and Thug celebrated their three-year anniversary last October, but she was denied visitation entry at the time because Fulton County’s visitation system was down.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • While scientists know innumerous foreign worlds are out there, researchers have only pinpointed the existence of a tiny fraction.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But at least several high-ranking NIH officials also appear to be on their way out.
    Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Fro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fro. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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