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abut

[uh-buht] / əˈbʌt /
VERB
touch or be next to something
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They start at abut $58,000 and $54,000, respectively.

From Barron's Mar. 12, 2026

TotalEnergies will likely remain cautious abut its balance sheet and announce a $750 million share buyback, they write.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

They sit just south of the 55,000-acre Tule River reservation and abut the Giant Sequoia National Monument.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2025

In the past, rumours abut the sci-fi drama have ranged from being close to spot on to utter fabrication.

From BBC May 25, 2025

In the centre a doubly cusped circle is surrounded by twelve radiating openings, whose trefoiled heads abut against twelve other broad trefoils, which are rather curiously run into the mouldings of the containing circle.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

Winfield abuts Regents Park, which is picturesque, has ducks and is clearly urban.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland, abuts hot spots like Somalia and Yemen but lacks the constant coups, wars, riots, terrorist attacks, ideological reckonings and other usual attractions for roving correspondents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 4, 2026

Her family's home is part of a suburban development that abuts a massive construction site.

From Barron's Dec. 3, 2025

The announcement from Holcomb’s office and AWS did not include a timeline for the data center campus in northern Indiana’s St. Joseph County, which abuts the Michigan state line.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2024

In London, where the river Thames arches away from the city near Belgravia, one might begin a walk at Vincent Square, the trapezoid-shaped park that abuts the office of the Royal Horticultural Society.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Van Ruijvens’ home in the 1660s and ’70s, a canalside house named the Golden Eagle, abutted a clandestine Remonstrant church and doubled as a Collegiant meetinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Some of their farms even abutted the graveyard.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2023

The library, which abutted the street, violated that policy.

From Washington Times Jul. 20, 2023

These efforts were often unsuccessful, however, and poor neighborhoods often abutted even the most prestigious ones.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

Holmes acquired a ticket to a village called Englewood in the town of Lake, a municipality of 200,000 people that abutted Chicago’s southernmost boundary.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The land abutting the Pinto Mountains Wilderness is also home to badgers, bighorn sheep and Mojave fringe-toed lizards.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

An unknown projectile hit a cargo ship in the strategic Strait of Hormuz abutting Iran, causing a fire and forcing the crew to evacuate, a maritime security agency said.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

The teen told Williams he was going to meet friends at the dirt road abutting the store.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 16, 2025

The line of cars crawled toward the parking lot and into an overflow field abutting a baseball complex.

From Slate Sep. 25, 2024

In the broad, covered corridor—the colonnaded kuthambalam abutting the heart of the temple where the Blue God lived with his flute, the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, their colors turning slowly in the night.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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