abut
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They start at abut $58,000 and $54,000, respectively.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 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
They sit just south of the 55,000-acre Tule River reservation and abut the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
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
The leaders of that party have always been painfully and even ludicrously particular abut their associates.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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
Iran also abuts the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime chokepoint that controls access to the Persian Gulf.
From Barron's ● Mar. 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
The reservation of the Torres Martinez tribe of the Cahuilla band abuts the Chuckwalla monument in the date palm-studded hub of Thermal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 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
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 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
The teen told Williams he was going to meet friends at the dirt road abutting the store.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
The shrubs abutting the building had caught fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025
The city’s previous worst fire, the Sayre fire, destroyed 600 homes, mostly in a densely packed trailer park directly abutting the scrub; the 2018 Woolsey fire destroyed 1,600 homes north of the city.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
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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