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Amongandamongstareprepositions.
Amongmeans ‘in the middle or included in a larger group of people or things’.Amongis commonly followed by a plural noun phrase:
I’m not worried about her. She’s livingamongfriends.
I think I’ve got that albumamongmy boxes of CDs upstairs.
Amongstis sometimes used as an alternative toamong. It is more formal and less common:
The results show that both girls areamongstthe top 10% of students in the whole school.
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