as in proximity
the state or condition of being near
environmentalists are concerned about the proposed shopping plaza's adjacency to the river
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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.
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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
However, the investment in Urban Legend marks Mondelēz’s first step into the fresh bakery sector in the UK, a move Gray described as a natural adjacency for the company.
—Douglas Yu, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
But that dynamic of an adjacency to national political power fueling a person’s dating identity is exactly what makes DC dating unique and (from all these news stories about people who hate dating there) so hostile.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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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
However, the investment in Urban Legend marks Mondelēz’s first step into the fresh bakery sector in the UK, a move Gray described as a natural adjacency for the company.
—Douglas Yu, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
But that dynamic of an adjacency to national political power fueling a person’s dating identity is exactly what makes DC dating unique and (from all these news stories about people who hate dating there) so hostile.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Adjacency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjacency. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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