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adjacent

[uh-jay-suhnt] / əˈdʒeɪ sənt /


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The cottage has gas-powered convection heaters, but in an adjacent barn a stack of firewood will help to keep Olena warm in the event of power cuts.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Quintero helps maintain a rusted pump jack for the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, on a patio adjacent to his brick shack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"The deeper question is why the same diet has opposite consequences in two adjacent parts of the gut. That is what we are working to understand next," Chi says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

They can enter the museum’s adjacent park without security screening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A middle-aged man in knife-edge whites took his message up three decks to the Marconi room adjacent to the officer’s promenade.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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