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as in among
in or into the middle of having grown up amid farmers and ranchers, Keith still thinks of himself as a country boy at heart

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as in during
in the course of amidst the messy divorce proceedings they never forgot that their children mattered most

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“Amid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amid. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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