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thereabouts

British  
/ ˈðɛərəˌbaʊts /

adverb

  1. near that place, time, amount, etc

    fifty or thereabouts
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And they must have taken me for thereabouts, too, though I was only thirteen, give or take.

From Literature

The current 30-year mortgage rate is still 6.2% or thereabouts; that has added thousands of dollars to an average person’s annual mortgage payments.

From MarketWatch

At that rate, you would break even when you reach age 79, or thereabouts; if you think you will live longer than that, it may be worth delaying.

From MarketWatch

"They will be there or thereabouts, they just have to get the squad together and be fit coming in to the new year."

From BBC

If pushed, they almost always say that it was during the 1950s or thereabouts.

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