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(idiomatic Category:English idioms#BEAROUND, intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#BEAROUND, stative Category:English stative verbs#BEAROUND) To be alive, existent, or present.
I'll be around for another hour or so.Category:English terms with usage examples#BEAROUND

This restaurant has been around since 1938.Category:English terms with usage examples#BEAROUND

The article said that dinos were around for about 250 million years.Category:English terms with usage examples#BEAROUND
- 1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 34, in The Magnificent Ambersons:
  Well, sir, you remember this young Georgie sort of disappeared, after his grandfather's death, and nobody seemed to know much what had become of him—though I did hear, once or twice, that he was still around somewhere.
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- 2005 May 25, Ed Levine, “It's All in How the Dog Is Served”, in New York Times, retrieved 1 Jan. 2009:
  The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years.
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(idiomatic Category:English idioms#BEAROUND, transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BEAROUND) To be near; to socialize with.
You're fun to be around.Category:English terms with usage examples#BEAROUND

When this expression has the sense of "to be alive" or "to be existent," it is often used with still.
The related form to have been around can have a distinctly different meaning.

to be near; to socialize with