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Example sentences for: vicinity

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In all of these instances, the job of the controller was to reach out to the aircraft, the parent company of the aircraft, and other planes in the vicinity in an attempt to reestablish communications and set the aircraft back on course.
Another commercial aircraft in the vicinity then radioed in with "reports over the radio of a commuter plane hitting the World Trade Center."
In this family, it appears that independent sets of residues are conserved, all in the vicinity of one or more of the conserved arginines.
Two groups of caves in the vicinity of Porto Cristo make a cool change from the beach — and attract an interminable procession of tour buses.
Deriving from an old French word, huré , meaning `bristly' or `stubbled,' the epithet was originally coined by French fur traders, hard-living, robust fellows who trapped and hunted in the vicinity of the Great Lakes.