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abut

[uh-buht] / əˈbʌt /
VERB
touch or be next to something
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In the neighborhoods that abut the 110 in South L.A., some residents have lost patience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

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

There the lower elevations west of the Wasatch and Uinta mountains are inhabited by S. v. vagrans, the higher elevations by obscurus and where the ranges of the two abut intergrading populations occur.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley

His 31-acre property abuts the Terafab site and shares about 4,000 feet of fence with Musk’s land.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

The seven-story addition directly abuts the original building without seeming to touch it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

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

After the fatality, authorities made “multiple efforts to trap and remove the bear” from an area that abutted homes, campgrounds and trails, including a search by an aircraft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

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

From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

The southwest corner of the fence abutted the main road but also separated the Lonogan property from the Rude farm.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

In Abdali, an agricultural region abutting Iraq, a lone herder tended to dozens of camels on a recent afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

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 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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