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That puts the rest of the oil-producing countries that abut the Persian Gulf in a bind.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

The band is pitched right at a difficult juncture at which their artistic ambitions abut real, life-altering attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

The contours of its rounded rolling elevations mark the courses of innumerable streams, and occasionally abut upon great sweeping glaciers.

From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard

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

Nelligan contacted neighboring homeowner Marcia Papich, whose fence abuts Susan Flores’ backyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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 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

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

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

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

Most people in Bolinas, a town abutting Point Reyes National Seashore, do not get home mail delivery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025

The city’s previous worst fire, the Sayre fire, destroyed 600 homes, mostly in a densely packed trailer park directly abutting the scrub; the 2018 Woolsey fire destroyed 1,600 homes north of the city.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025

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