How to Use (somewhere) in the region of in a Sentence

(somewhere) in the region of

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Definition of (somewhere) in the region ofnext
  • Hroza, which is in the region of Kharkiv, is about 23 miles from the front line.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Both of those companies closed rounds in the region of $175 million in the past five years.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Estimates put the value of the deal in the region of at least $2 billion.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • The plate was likely produced in the region of Tikal or Calakmul.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • The ingredient, muira puama, is a bush that grows in the region of the world called the Amazons.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Thousands of acres of farmland and crops have been ruined in the region of Palamas.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • By the way, there is a wider problem in the region of establishing states that have a monopoly on the use of force.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Drones were also downed in the region of Bryansk, which lies on the border with Ukraine, according to the ministry.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Italy had been unified, and the king, far from Vesuvius in the region of Piedmont, had doubts about the need for the observatory.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In the decade since Grainge took over UMG, the company’s value has increased by somewhere in the region of $32 billion.
    — Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In the decade since Grainge took over UMG, the company’s value has increased by somewhere in the region of $32 billion.
    — Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2021
  • This mutation also occurs in the region of the virus that binds the ACE2 receptor.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • There have been a couple of dozen earthquakes larger than magnitude 5 in the region of Thursday’s quake in the last 50 years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • The think tank estimates the drop in windfall tax receipts from energy firms to be in the region of £7 billion.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • For instance, emulating the full range of inputs found on a basic Xbox controller on the XAC costs in the region of $600.
    — Geoffrey Bunting, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Officials in Russia’s southern city of Krasnodar, in the region of the same name bordering Crimea, said that two drones struck there.
    — Susie Blann, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
  • Also, the perk cannot be used in the region where your travel originates, and the travel booking must end in the region of origin.
    — Callie Radke Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Mountain cedar is predominant in the region of Hill Country north of us.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The dust and debris in the Lyrids stream will strike Earth’s atmosphere in the region of the constellation of Lyra—hence the name (the constellation is not the source of the meteors).
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Ajax’s annual budget stands in the region of $170 million.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The law works for Ceres, which predicted that there should be something in the region of the asteroid belt but failed after the discovery of Neptune.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Hamas attacked others areas in the region of the festival site, located near the Gaza border, on Oct. 7.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The Brazil international arrived at Camp Nou to great fanfare in the summer transfer window, for a fee believed to be in the region of around €60mn ($64mn).
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Another strike in the region of Kharkiv killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother on Friday, a local official said.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Any object in the region of this cone will be represented with a unique audio signature.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • April began with a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s third-largest refinery, located deep in the region of Tatarstan, around 800 miles away.
    — Michael Liebreich, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2024
  • The season’s production budget is reported to be in the region of KRW20 billion ($15 million).
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 July 2022
  • Originally, the Bundesliga hoped to generate in the region of €2 billion ($2.2 billion) through the deal.
    — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Carved more than 1,700 years ago from a warm gray rock in the region of Gandhara (today’s northwest Pakistan), an exquisite fusion of East and West is embodied.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • This tepid response has only reaffirmed the dim view in the region of Western policy regarding Syria.
    — Emile Hokayem, Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2023

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