abutment
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A “salon” of multiple smaller works introduced each section, enlarging on Mr. Whitney’s shift from gatherings of blunt, sometimes layered, rounded forms to the abutments of rectangles that have preoccupied him since the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Plans also call for the use of Ashlar stone cladding for the bridge piers, and abutments and walls near the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023
Though the project is driven largely by the need to connect landscape, another challenge involves development of “natural-looking” abutments, approach slopes and walls expected to provide potential homes for small animals, birds and insects.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022
The site is near ongoing Sound Transit construction, including abutments that support future train overpasses.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2021
The concrete abutments projected from each bank, so that the narrowed river ran slightly faster under the bridge.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing abutment
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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