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adjoin

[uh-join] / əˈdʒɔɪn /




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Both areas adjoin waste land leading to the entrance to the tunnel system where Noah's body was found.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

About 20% are protected nature areas, like the mountains covered with pine and fir forests that adjoin the neighboring state of Morelos.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023

Citing previous Court opinions, the plurality stated that an adjacent wetland must abut or adjoin a regulated water.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Our offices adjoin and she is continually coming in, making herself at home, and peppering me with questions.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022

Sturdy red bricks adjoin pale stone accented by ornamental flourishes.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

At the Old Dutch Church Burying Ground, which adjoins the larger Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Mr. Ocker examines gravestones that may have inspired Irving’s character names—Katrina Van Tassel is one of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Lane added that the development would not affect Burlish Top Nature Reserve, which adjoins the Meadows.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Kei Nakai says he’ll miss the most his parents’ home — a skinny, green two-story building that adjoins the nursery on Grevillea Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

The Barents Sea, which adjoins the Arctic Ocean, is one of the most productive oceanic areas in the world and home to an enormous diversity of organisms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023

One rumor originating in Hartman’s Cafe involved Taylor Jones, a rancher whose property adjoins River Valley Farm.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

In August, after conducting training camp at Loyola Marymount, the Rams will not return to what essentially has been a trailer park of 75 adjoined and retrofitted modular buildings in Ventura County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024

If data centers occupy the caverns, any improper water management or heat discharge could quickly become an immediate risk to adjoined residential neighborhoods.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

So I went to my room, that adjoined Father’s, and wasted time on my phone screen, and thought how I could be doing this at home, and fell asleep.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020

They’d been adjoined ever since Francis snapped up DeBoer nearly a year ahead of schedule the summer of 2020.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2019

Since this part of our property adjoined the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law, my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high wall lest it be considered a snub.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The Los Angeles County Fire Department told The Times the fire broke out inside an auto-body shop and spread to an adjoining building that contained several businesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

They were among an estimated 800,000 faithful who lined the Champs Elysees and adjoining streets in Paris on Saturday to welcome the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics for a giant open-air mass.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

She explained in the adjoining caption how she had "slipped on a muddy patch on the steep path", while walking back with her family following her birthday celebrations.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The adjoining barn on the property was transformed into a guesthouse, and Seyfried has focused on passing on her love for animals to her two children: Nina, 8, and Thomas, 5.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

One shared the queen’s bed every night, to ascertain she had no other company; the other two slept in an adjoining chamber with the septa who looked over them.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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