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abut

[uh-buht] / əˈbʌt /
VERB
touch or be next to something
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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, police forces became much more cautious abut what information they released.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025

One of the most famous spots is the plateau of Rochemalan, where the heights of St. John abut upon the mountains of Angrogna.

From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

Avoiding property that abuts forestland can lower the risk of wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

In London, where the river Thames arches away from the city near Belgravia, one might begin a walk at Vincent Square, the trapezoid-shaped park that abuts the office of the Royal Horticultural Society.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop.

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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