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abut

[uh-buht] / əˈbʌt /
VERB
touch or be next to something
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They start at abut $58,000 and $54,000, respectively.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 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

But after Lord Leveson published his report into the ethics of the press in 2012 police forces became much more cautious abut what information they released.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025

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

There the lower elevations west of the Wasatch and Uinta mountains are inhabited by S. v. vagrans, the higher elevations by obscurus and where the ranges of the two abut intergrading populations occur.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley

The assignment of a series that abuts the supernatural is to keep its audience off balance and “Yaga” does, but not strictly through intrusions of the otherworldly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Iran also abuts the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime chokepoint that controls access to the Persian Gulf.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland, abuts hot spots like Somalia and Yemen but lacks the constant coups, wars, riots, terrorist attacks, ideological reckonings and other usual attractions for roving correspondents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

The small table abuts the wall of the trailer and sits beneath a window.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The Van Ruijvens’ home in the 1660s and ’70s, a canalside house named the Golden Eagle, abutted a clandestine Remonstrant church and doubled as a Collegiant meetinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

These efforts were often unsuccessful, however, and poor neighborhoods often abutted even the most prestigious ones.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

He was heading toward the training track, which abutted the main track’s clubhouse turn.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Behind them the water is a luminescent strip of blue, abutting a silhouetted skyline in which many of the buildings belch smoke; a few of the industrial structures spew fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

River Arts’ inaugural River Solstice Festival at an Elysian Valley park abutting a soft-bottomed area of the river known as the Glendale Narrows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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

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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