What's the difference between thereabout and whereabout?

Thereabout


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Thereabouts

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though they remained there or thereabouts for a few weeks, a 5-2 home defeat to Arsenal on 26 September was seen as the shape of things to come.
  • (2) Its continued existence seems like a minor miracle once you've read Rakoff's book, which is set in 1996, or thereabouts.
  • (3) The US still have question marks about some of the soft goals they can concede, and Gonzalez, for all his promise, tends to be there or thereabouts when crucial mistakes are happening.
  • (4) "[Police] were in Rebekah's office for two days, thereabouts, when there were three executives in there with them," he said.
  • (5) The overall loss of iron during the first twelve days or thereabouts is probably not sufficient to require nutritional supplements over this period.
  • (6) Simon Hopkinson first met Elizabeth David in 1984, or thereabouts, at Hilaire, the Chelsea restaurant of which he was chef.
  • (7) Beyond the political huffing and puffing, the debate about what Pfizer would have to pay to bag AstraZeneca always seemed straightforward: a bid of £60 a share or thereabouts would be a knockout; anything less and Pfizer would struggle to get an agreement.
  • (8) On the second leg of my south-north train journey, another 400 miles or thereabouts from London to Edinburgh, once again there was no missing the proliferation of Day-Glo yellow plantations.
  • (9) I was written about by the Guardian in 1993 or thereabouts,” she replies, “and it wasn’t a positive experience.” The phrase “character assassination” is mentioned.
  • (10) "3D printing in general has been around since 1986 or thereabouts," says Jake Durrant, senior lecturer at Ravensbourne digital design college.
  • (11) This approach of isotopic substitution on nitrogen or carbon atoms is of general utility and should allow virtually any proton on a protein of molecular weight 20 000 or thereabout to be selectively observed.
  • (12) I do need to make sure we are there or thereabouts and that is all I'm asking for," he said.
  • (13) This year, we will be there or thereabouts financially, but next year will be very challenging.
  • (14) I think once we get that, we will be there or thereabouts."
  • (15) I’ve always been there or thereabouts in the squad, but it’s been a big learning curve for myself over the last four or five years,” Hardaker said.
  • (16) I suggest the hypothesis that bancroftian filariasis, endemic since the early days of slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, disappeared around 1930 by virtue of the long-term effects of a municipal sewerage-water system begun in the 1890s or thereabouts.
  • (17) We've always been there or thereabouts but we've always had dips.
  • (18) "You don't really notice him much but he has always been there or thereabouts working his way to the top.
  • (19) "I can remember one or two in particular where there was no evidence at all against the defendant – the prosecutor couldn't point to anything other than he was there or thereabouts – and I bailed him.
  • (20) Always search for items under "Newly listed", not "Ending soonest", and try to check eBay with some frequency: bi-hourly, seven days a week or thereabouts.

Whereabout


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Whereabouts
  • (n.) Alt. of Whereabouts

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Met police The three girls were interviewed in December by detectives about the whereabouts of their friend but were not themselves considered at risk of fleeing Britain.
  • (2) • The US National Security Agency is reportedly collecting almost 5 billion mobile phone records a day under a programme that monitors and analyses highly personal data about the precise whereabouts of individuals, wherever they travel in the world, the Washington Post has revealed, based on documents provided by Edward Snowden .
  • (3) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
  • (4) Instead, the situation has deteriorated: rehearsals for the piece began on the day the Russian authorities finally produced confirmation that Tolokonnikova had been admitted to the medical wing of a Siberian penal colony , following a three-week transit period during which her family and legal representatives were denied any information of her whereabouts.
  • (5) At least 100 Boko Haram militants killed by Cameroon army Read more Ibrahim Musa, a spokesman for the Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria, said soldiers on Monday carried away about 200 bodies from around the home of the sect’s leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, who was himself badly wounded and whose whereabouts have not been disclosed by the authorities.
  • (6) Since then, his whereabouts have been a mystery, but this week his brother told Associated Press that he had received new and disturbing information from one of the policemen who took Gao away.
  • (7) One year later, and despite worldwide outrage, their whereabouts remains unknown.
  • (8) Also in the courts, the justice department has continued to argue that the US government doesn’t need a warrant to gather the cell phone location information of Americans – even though that type of information can give authorities your precise whereabouts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • (9) The group also called on China to account for the whereabouts of Tohti, who has not been allowed to contact his family or see a lawyer since his arrest last month.
  • (10) While US officials have said they have met with Mobley, they have refused to confirm or disclose his whereabouts – or tell Islam much of anything.
  • (11) Another described how troops made a women squeeze “burning-red coals” in her hands to reveal the whereabouts of rebels or cattle.
  • (12) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
  • (13) Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire, was cleared of allegations that she lied about which was her primary residence to maximise expense claims - only to face criticisms after the evidence revealed her admitting to lying on her blog about her whereabouts in order to persuade constituents of her commitment.
  • (14) We want the whereabouts of Mr Neklyayev to be known and for him to have medical attention and access to legal advice.
  • (15) Three others were snatched in another oil field on 3 February and their whereabouts also remain unknown.
  • (16) Inside the briefing room, relatives earlier had angrily confronted a Malaysia Airlines official over the lack of information on the flight's whereabouts.
  • (17) Separately, prosecutors in the western German city of Duisburg said on Thursday that they had opened a fraud investigation against Amri in April but shelved it in November because his whereabouts were unknown.
  • (18) Fonseka's whereabouts during the incident was also a matter of confusion.
  • (19) Analysis courtesy of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Copyright: Digital Globe The report says: "Their families are not informed of their fate or whereabouts.
  • (20) The option of quickly sending a message to my boyfriend and family with my whereabouts when I am in danger makes me feel much safer,” she says.

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