Synonyms for nearby
ˈnɪərˈbaɪnear·by

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1. nearbyadverb

   close at hand

   "the nearby towns"; "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus"

   Antonyms:
   far

2. nearbyadverb

   not far away in relative terms

   "she works nearby"; "the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars"

   Antonyms:
   far

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1. List of paraphrases for "nearby":

   neighboring, neighbouring, near, vicinity, adjacent, close, surrounding, neighbour, adjoining, neighbor, around

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1. Google Search:

   If the storm is only hours away from your location, you might receive a reminder to start charging your phone in case power goes out. And if you search when the storm is nearby, you'll get the most urgent information, like how to avoid injury from fast-moving water or flying debris.

2. Amit Etkin:

   If we get out of our box of thinking depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are things that have one set of treatments and start to look at the boxes nearby and draw on tools from those other boxes, that can’t hurt our patient, [It can] only help our ability to treat clinically but also from the research side, [entice] us to think differently about what kind of circuitry to try to intervene with to help people.

3. Brian Fields:

   When you see green bananas in Illinois, you know they are fresh, and you know they did not grow here, like bananas, Pu-244 and Sm-146 decay over time. So if we find these radioisotopes on Earth today, we know they are fresh and not from here -- the green bananas of the isotope world -- and thus the smoking guns of a nearby supernova.

4. Noah Rose:

   I was surprised that immediate habitat didn't have much of an effect -- mosquitoes in forests and nearby towns had similar behavior, we thought that maybe moving into human landscapes would be a key driver of attraction to human hosts. But it seems like mosquitoes fly back and forth too readily between these habitats for their behavior to diverge in many cases.

5. Celestin Singirankabo:

   Five people came around 9.30 p.m. and called the elected administrator by name and ordered him out of his house. They shot at him and he died, after that they moved to another nearby house and also shot another person.