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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
They sit just south of the 55,000-acre Tule River reservation and abut the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
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
We have to pass through the poorest portion of modern Athens, through wretched bazaars and dirty markets, which abut upon the main street.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
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
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 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 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
The library, which abutted the street, violated that policy.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Rather than one bookcase, Barth included two, abutted side by side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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 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
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