contiguous
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The ships tend to stay outside the 24-nautical-mile contiguous zone Taipei claims, but not always.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Scientists found the parasite, known as Echinococcus multilocularis, in local coyotes, marking the first time it has been identified in a wild host along the contiguous U.S.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Settlers regarded the massive predators as a serious threat to people and livestock and hunted them aggressively, driving the population in the contiguous U.S. to fewer than 1,000 animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
But even taken all together, do they constitute an existential threat to the contiguous United States or our interests abroad?
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
The series of contiguous physical events has rendered the child’s body so different from the one I glance down on at this moment; the very atoms that composed her body no longer compose mine.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing contiguous
The Crucible
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Common Senses: Tact, Tang ("Touch")
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The United States
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