abut
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In the neighborhoods that abut the 110 in South L.A., some residents have lost patience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
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
Slaughter-houses abut upon the stream, in the very centre of the village.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
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
The seven-story addition directly abuts the original building without seeming to touch it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Iran also abuts the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime chokepoint that controls access to the Persian Gulf.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
The shrewd composition abuts their lips, so that they are just about to touch in a kiss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
The small table abuts the wall of the trailer and sits beneath a window.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
The tunnel had been there since before the war, said Mohammad Doghmosh, adding that it abutted a low building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
He was heading toward the training track, which abutted the main track’s clubhouse turn.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
In Abdali, an agricultural region abutting Iraq, a lone herder tended to dozens of camels on a recent afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
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
Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban design practices could make areas abutting wilderness safer from the kind of wildfire that hit Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
The line of cars crawled toward the parking lot and into an overflow field abutting a baseball complex.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 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
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