How to Use adjacency in a Sentence

adjacency

noun

• But as the Big Ten showed in the past, adjacency to TV sets has value whether or not they are turned to a game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2021
• The best that could be hoped for was the intimate adjacency of the facing page.
  — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• That adjacency to nature forms the core of forestry’s appeal.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• Once a sleepy industrial backwater (the adjacency to the railroad was an asset), the place has changed with the times.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2022
• The adjacency of his experience and that last-gasp of Brideshead throwback sparked his practice.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2022
• The rush to establish adjacency with her is far reaching.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2022
• Along the way, a city is constructed, but that largely affects play due to adjacency rules, as buildings can’t be next to one another.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2018
• The two countries share far more than adjacency on a world map; the cultural histories of eastern Slovakia and Ukraine are deeply entwined.
  — Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The show, which was planned before the rise of Donald Trump and based on a generation-old novel, once got heat from its adjacency to a vivified right-wing movement.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• Weighed by the total number of lives lost and the adjacency of age that many of the victims were to some of my own closest loved ones, the need to self-preserve took precedence over any desire to seek out further information.
  — Aley Arion, Essence, 20 May 2022
• And as his notoriety grew, Imanuel received a corresponding amount of criticism for his moniker and its adjacency to the n-word.
  — Alex Wong, GQ, 2 Feb. 2018
• Irpin has loomed large symbolically in the war not just because of its adjacency to the capital.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Landlords are already looking for ways to inflate rents for spaces with sidewalk space and parking space adjacency.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2021
• The glistening length of Klum’s earthworm, with its visual adjacency to both male genitalia and excrement, is surely far from femme-y.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps this one shouldn’t have come as a surprise, given Wednesday’s wild triumph on Netflix (not to mention the heft of its Addams Family adjacency).
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 12 July 2023
• There was also concern around the adjacency to an existing single family home in the area — the only remaining home from what was once a neighborhood made up of families who worked at the mill.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Its adjacency to the lake provides a temperate maritime influence, and helps make this Italy’s most northern Mediterranean climate.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• But that model of adjacency is irrelevant and increasingly superfluous in a world in which there is so much content.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 18 June 2017
• Chief among them were his mother’s illness and death, which instilled in him the desire to ensure everyone had access to medical care, and the adjacency of Vermont to Canada, which afforded him a blueprint for universal health care.
  — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Rick Mather, the American architect based in London, designed a nice building about 20 years ago that’s not really an addition but an adjacency.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
• Guerro’s column is honest and vulnerable, delving into the perils/pitfalls of white adjacency and the internalized shame many feel because of it.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Pursue interests, passions and talents regardless of the adjacency to your current career.
  — Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Some cities have successfully landed their sports teams in close adjacency to their central business districts and the expanses of rapidly-diminishing rail yards south of the loop offered some tempting possibilities.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022
• That sense of adjacency between exhibition and city at large, each rubbing off on the other, is something Meier's Getty Center — alone on its hilltop, all but inaccessible for anybody without a car — has never been able to offer its visitors.
  — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The whimsical caper music employed in the early parts of the film rather unfortunately reinforce that mentality, while painting Conte as somebody who professes to take pride in his contribution to sports and adjacency to greatness.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
• This will add to the pressure on inventory suppliers and publishers to figure out contextual adjacency or custom audiences built from existing first-party data.
  — Jason Wulfsohn, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• Amazon has also met with several technology companies regarding how to prevent inappropriate content from appearing next to ads, an issue called content adjacency, several people with knowledge of the meetings told CNBC.
  — Michelle Castillo, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2017
• Apart from the pleasurable wonder of watching these excellent real horses alongside McCartney’s excellent model clotheshorses, that adjacency was also designed to stimulate the audience’s consideration of animal cruelty in the fashion industry.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2023
• These adjacency issues involve numerous social-infrastructure obstacles that need to be addressed comprehensively along with the engineering issues, including the interactions and contradictions among them.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2022
• Operations - Plan and design for efficient court operations, incorporating modern technology, paperless file management, and appropriate adjacencies.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024