as in location
the area or space occupied by or intended for something a locality filled with exotic plants

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Recent Examples of locality Resident say the siege was carried out by members of the violent Kokorat San Ras gang based in the nearby locality of Ti Bwadòm in Gros-Morne in the Artibonite. Ychmuth Corneille, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025 The skeleton, found in the Khuren Dukh locality of the Eastern Gobi Basin in Mongolia, belongs to a new species of pachycephalosaur called Zavacephale rinpoche and dates back 108 million to 115 million years ago, according to a paper published in Nature on Wednesday. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025 Advanced multitenant systems build on the principle of data locality, ensuring that each client's data and interactions or prompts remain contained and are never used to train models that could serve others. Khash Kiani, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 The evidence comes from sauropod bones unearthed at the Ibirá locality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for locality
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Noun
  • The company also prefers to return to locations year after year, so customers know where to find them, Simonson said.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Institute will focus on advocating for the island’s screen sector on the international stage, offering production support, location coordination, and financial assistance.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump also revoked Bolton's security detail, which was in place because of threats from Iran.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • How does a company become—and stay—a great place to work?
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Public happens to be the very same venue where Hamilton made its off-Broadway debut inFebruary 2015, before moving to Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre that August.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Twickenham became the second stadium used in 2016, and Tottenham was added to the venue rotation in ’19.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Miami site is currently used as an employee parking lot for Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus and is adjacent to the historic Freedom Tower, which served as a resource center for hundreds of thousands of Cubans who fled communism in the 1960s and 1970s and sought asylum in the United States.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The collection prelaunched with a dedicated pop-up at Tokyo’s department store Isetan Shinjuku and rolls out internationally starting Thursday at the brand’s flagships, retail partners and on the brand’s e-commerce site.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Locality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locality. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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