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adjacency

[uh-jay-suhn-see] / əˈdʒeɪ sən si /






NOUN
propinquity
Synonyms


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“In fact, we believe hyperscalers are more likely to attempt head-on competition, going after GPU cloud business as the natural adjacency to traditional cloud,” which could cannibalize CoreWeave’s business.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

But with a few smaller parts and a lifetime of Hollywood adjacency under her belt, Johnson herself was experienced enough to pull off Anastasia’s dolting ignorance.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2025

A middlebrow elite earning dominion over an appendage of government for no reason other than their familiarity and adjacency to someone more powerful than them?

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

The adjacency of the new tank to the dockyard at Portsmouth enables the Admiralty authorities to make fuller and more frequent use of it than formerly.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

“We’re very focused on these adjacencies that are very close to our core business, like BESS,” he said, meaning battery-energy storage systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

When that happens, new adjacencies yield fresh insights, introducing confusion where certainty once prevailed.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

It seems to me that there are two problematic adjacencies.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

We then calculated the adjacencies with the optimal soft-thresholding power estimated above and transformed the adjacency into a topological overlap matrix to calculate the corresponding dissimilarity.

From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017

No part of our Indian empire, or of its adjacencies, but has occupied the researches of our Oriental scholars.

From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey




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