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• Rumors have been flying around about a potential replacement for the CEO, but the one-year contract seems to have quieted that talk.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
• This is one of those movies that’s moved around about 300 times.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2021
• The transfers were one of the concerns thrown around about Harsin.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | [e-mail], al, 20 Feb. 2022
• There were many, many years when it was tossed around about going in (to the Rock Hall) or not going in.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 4 May 2022
• And that’s the sort of fundamental insight that came out of physics around about 1950 or so.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2024
• Smoking game has been around about as long as fire itself.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 21 Oct. 2019
• The 9-month trip to Mars has a tight 10-day launch window that only comes around about once every two years.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2022
• There’s a word that gets thrown around about artists of Cronenberg’s ilk: prescient.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2022
• It was first listed around about six years ago for more than $14 million and had at one point failed to sell at auction.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 June 2024
• McKenna smiles, happy to joke around about a movie he’s had to be so circumspect about for so long.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 29 Dec. 2021
• Two weeks later, word started to get around about the first person in town who’d contracted the virus.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2020
• Well, Ron Klain called me this -- last week when the word was being spread around about Stephen Breyer’s decision.
  — ABC News, 30 Jan. 2022
• Things that aren't happening A lot of rumors have been flying around about the Kīlauea eruption.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
• Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 million years ago.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
• So there’ll be lots and lots and lots of discussions around about how that should occur and what’s the best sequence to use or what is the best virus to use in order to build that.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 Jan. 2022
• There were a couple of TikTok videos floating around about that funny kind of vocal melody.
  — Noah Eckstein, Variety, 24 Dec. 2022
• Word has gotten around about Montgomery’s Bruins (20-3-1) using the weak-side defenseman to start the rush.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• Word has been going around about the lack of stellar free-agent signings, such as Max Scherzer and Carlos Correa.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
• But for a number of leagues, there has been quite a dramatic impact, with the ratio falling to around about one - equal numbers of home and away wins.
  — James Reade, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• How much calling around about casts and crews happens before arriving on a set?
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
• All the talk flying around about a looming recession is starting to spook consumers.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• All the talk flying around about a looming recession is starting to spook consumers.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• So, word has gotten around about the little Southern dining gem that, as Watson says, is now in the middle of everything.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2021
• Central Arkansas country band Midnight South has only been around about 18 months, but the five-piece has made plenty of progress in that time.
  — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2023
• While most would say heartfelt comments about their cast mates, Ken decided to kid around about the status of their camaraderie.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
• But around about a hundred years ago, all those waterways were redirected to farms, and the lake bed itself got plowed and cultivated for crops.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• Both called local police first, who then contacted state police around about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, Bivens said.
  — Marc Levy and Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Word got around about her amazing work and demand skyrocketed.
  — Essence, 29 June 2022
• Simmers told Dateline there are many theories floating around about what could have happened to Betsy.
  — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
• There was an earlier brush with the movie business, when Oliver Stone had come sniffing around about adapting the article into a film, which never panned out.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024