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The Roman space telescope is expected to discover tens of thousands of planets, possibly offering clarity abut how many could be out there.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 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

The word took off in August after content creator Jools Lebron, posted on TikTok abut her demure work outfit and mindful make-up.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

There are massive buildings,—bridges of noble span, and harbors that abut far into the waves,—founded on wooden piles; and this hugest of hill-forts we find founded on wooden piles also.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

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

That, in turn, abuts Friedman’s 30th District, which is centered on Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025

The announcement from Holcomb’s office and AWS did not include a timeline for the data center campus in northern Indiana’s St. Joseph County, which abuts the Michigan state line.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

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

Here in this tiny mountain community dotted with apple orchards east of Yucaipa, a flood had gutted a clapboard house that abutted a creek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

The library, which abutted the street, violated that policy.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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 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