adjacency
noun
ad·ja·cen·cy
ə-ˈjā-sᵊn(t)-sē 
plural adjacencies
1
: something that is adjacent
2
: the quality or state of being adjacent : contiguity
Examples of adjacency in a Sentence
environmentalists are concerned about the proposed shopping plaza's adjacency to the river
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Such adjacency to vegetation — especially in regions like the arid Western US, which is prone to fires — directly increases a city’s risk because blazes that typically begin in brush and shrubbery can move quickly through abundant fuel sources.
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Li Zhou, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Move from traditional audience development activities about volume to an audience insight function that focuses on behaviors and unmet needs to find adjacencies.
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the crowd, seen through the roving, irony-hungry cable-news cameras, was all farcical adjacency: Jared Kushner sat not far from Zuckerberg, both shaking hands robotically and otherwise playacting at human social skills.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Doc, meanwhile, makes a painful discovery: Through its COINTELPRO program, the FBI has turned countless hippies into informants and used their adjacency to politically radical groups to gather intel.
—Chris Stanton, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
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Li Zhou, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Move from traditional audience development activities about volume to an audience insight function that focuses on behaviors and unmet needs to find adjacencies.
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the crowd, seen through the roving, irony-hungry cable-news cameras, was all farcical adjacency: Jared Kushner sat not far from Zuckerberg, both shaking hands robotically and otherwise playacting at human social skills.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Doc, meanwhile, makes a painful discovery: Through its COINTELPRO program, the FBI has turned countless hippies into informants and used their adjacency to politically radical groups to gather intel.
—Chris Stanton, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
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“Adjacency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjacency. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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