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adjacency

[uh-jey-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

Their position was at the southern extremity of the woodland crown, their placing probably inspired by the adjacency of the material required for their construction.

From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

It referenced “new growth adjacencies and the benefit from AI adoption,” Macquarie says.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

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

We haven’t even talked about adjacencies like education and Evernote for Business.

From The Verge May 4, 2016

We were, at least, the general discoverers of the Magellanick region, and have hitherto held it with all its adjacencies.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson




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