contiguity
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"They also don't just associate that word with an object based on temporal contiguity without really understanding the meaning of those words, but they activate a memory of an object when they hear its name."
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024
“Since the distance between town and island is slight, we do not think the failure of the legislative plan to achieve literal contiguity a serious demerit,” the judges wrote in 1992.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2023
Then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government said the latter move would help "provide Palestinian territorial contiguity" in the West Bank and make it easier for Palestinians to live a normal life.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023
Enforced silence denies the contiguity between our inner and outer selves.
From Slate • May 6, 2015
It is the immediate contiguity of the large city which is their stimulus to exertion, and their means of preservation or of prosperity.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
Vocabulary lists containing contiguity
The Scarlet Letter
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The Return of the Native
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The House of the Seven Gables
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