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abutting

adjective as in adjoining

adjective as in bordering

adjective as in neighboring

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The spacious concrete hall, abutting a vast campus of big-box stores, was built for pragmatism, not spiritual fervor; unlike other Courage Tour events, which were held under tents to evoke past revival movements, Vance’s Pennsylvania stop seemed like a nondescript conference.

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The line of cars crawled toward the parking lot and into an overflow field abutting a baseball complex.

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The victims — mostly Central Americans — were kidnapped from buses headed to Mexican cities abutting Texas.

The IAA identified the jugs as Canaanite, a people who resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean.

“That’s going to be devastating for the local ecosystem. It’s going to present fire risk, with dead trees abutting developments. It’s going to be very expensive to remediate.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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