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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Nowhere.
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- adverb dialect, nonstandard
nowhere
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Examples
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One of these "nowheres" was from Anchorage to her home town of Wasilla.
James Love: Alaska: Bloated State Budget, Fiscal Disaster Waiting to Happen 2008
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Look at me: risin 'eighty-six year, I be, an' aint never tasted nothin 'all my life' cept salt-hoss, an 'ship-bread, an' rum; never slep 'nowheres' cept in a hammock, an 'had to turn out on deck an' stand watch in all kinds of weather.
The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Edmund Lester Pearson 1908
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I ain't goin 'nowheres' cos I like it here - IRS and all.
novatownhall blog jack 2010
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"One of these" nowheres "[bridges] was from Anchorage to her home town of Wasilla ....
James Love: Alaska: Bloated State Budget, Fiscal Disaster Waiting to Happen 2008
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Stuff in place now, like infrastructure, is nowheres near as exciting.
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LaBeouf is nowheres near being in Connery's league yet, but he can match the young Karen Allen.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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Take care, have fun, enjoy life - we ain't goin' nowheres.
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“Neither one of you is going to run nowheres, unless into a provost or a Minié, and I might be the one that puts it there.”
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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That rule's been changed again since the will of the rank and file is nowheres near as cut and dried in Obama's favor as it appeared to be before Clinton did the unthinkable and actually went out and won all those votes.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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LaBeouf is nowheres near being in Connery's league yet, but he can match the young Karen Allen.
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