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abut

[uh-buht] / əˈbʌt /
VERB
touch or be next to something
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The Roman space telescope is expected to discover tens of thousands of planets, possibly offering clarity abut how many could be out there.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 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

It would likely upzone single-family neighborhoods in Arleta, Panorama City and other communities that abut a north-south rail line being built along Van Nuys Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

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

From BBC Aug. 12, 2025

But he perceived with surprise that the pillar did not abut immediately on the wall, as he had supposed.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

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

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 shrewd composition abuts their lips, so that they are just about to touch in a kiss.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2025

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

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The tunnel had been there since before the war, said Mohammad Doghmosh, adding that it abutted a low building.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

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

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

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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