An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
THEREABOUTS
thereabout, thereabouts
(adverb) near that place; “he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks”
thereabout, thereabouts
(adverb) near that time or date; “come at noon or thereabouts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
thereabouts (not comparable)
Alternative form of thereabout
Noun
thereabouts pl (plural only)
(plural only) Location
Anagrams
• breathes out, outbreathes
Source: Wiktionary
There"a*bout`, There"a*bouts`, adv. Etym: [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
1. Near that place.
2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.
3. Concerning that; about that. [R.] What will ye dine I will go thereabout. Chaucer. They were much perplexed thereabout. Luke xxiv. 4.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BEATIFY
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
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