About and Generally

About

About adverb - Close to but not exactly.
Usage example: it's about a mile to the nearest gas station

Generally and about are semantically related In some cases you can use "Generally" instead an adverb "About".

Generally

Generally adverb - For the most part.
Usage example: generally, I don't care for raw vegetables

About and generally are semantically related in approximation topic. Sometimes you can use "About" instead an adverb "Generally", if it concerns topics such as almost, mainly.

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