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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

But after Lord Leveson published his report into the ethics of the press in 2012 police forces became much more cautious abut what information they released.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2025

Hundreds of thousands of people live around the Bien Hoa air base, and some of their homes abut the site’s perimeter fence, just yards from the contaminated areas.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2025

One of the most famous spots is the plateau of Rochemalan, where the heights of St. John abut upon the mountains of Angrogna.

From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

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

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

From Barron's Dec. 3, 2025

The small table abuts the wall of the trailer and sits beneath a window.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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 city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop.

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

River Arts’ inaugural River Solstice Festival at an Elysian Valley park abutting a soft-bottomed area of the river known as the Glendale Narrows.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 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

In a much lower-stakes action last weekend, the mayor of a city abutting the waterway ordered the demolition of a Chinese-built friendship park, angering Beijing’s embassy in nearby Panama City.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 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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