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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

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

San José was the first city in California to change laws allowing accessory dwelling units to be sold separately from the houses they abut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

Hundreds of thousands of people live around the Bien Hoa air base, and some of their homes abut the site’s perimeter fence, just yards from the contaminated areas.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 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 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

“Remember the Times” stretches back to Riley’s childhood in Harlem, where the playground of his elementary school abutted the parking lot behind New York’s venerable Apollo Theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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

The back of their cage nearly abutted the train tracks, and on the tracks directly behind them stood an Amtrak train engine.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

In a much lower-stakes action last weekend, the mayor of a city abutting the waterway ordered the demolition of a Chinese-built friendship park, angering Beijing’s embassy in nearby Panama City.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

The line of cars crawled toward the parking lot and into an overflow field abutting a baseball complex.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024

The IAA identified the jugs as Canaanite, a people who resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 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