abut
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Air samples in 2023 detected benzene concentrations more than eight times higher than the state’s short-term health limit at Hasley Canyon Park, which abuts Live Oak Elementary School, alarming local parents.
From Los Angeles Times
The teen told Williams he was going to meet friends at the dirt road abutting the store.
The tunnel had been there since before the war, said Mohammad Doghmosh, adding that it abutted a low building.
Chicago, technically speaking, abuts the border with Canada because Lake Michigan is part of an international waterway.
She travels to Savannah’s Bonaventure graveyard, abutting the Wilmington River, “where shrimp boats float, a mostly silent river that is only audible when a breeze shakes the trees and you hear the water whisper.”
From Los Angeles Times
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