as in adjacent
having a border in common
flanking farms that share the same water source
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as in envelopment
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as in adjoining
to be adjacent to
the guards flank the center on a football team's offensive line
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flanking
Adjective
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Photo : Russ Ross There’s a dining area adjacent to the kitchen.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
28 Mar. 2025 -
The town purchased the lot adjacent to the town hall in 2000.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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There was also damage to the adjoining St Philip’s church, according to video received by CNN.—
Abeer Salman, Dana Karni,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Chapter 1 The Center Nobody would take the breast center and its adjoining hospital as an ordinary medical establishment.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
12 Apr. 2025
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But since Hamas' October 7 attack and Israel's retaliatory invasion of Gaza, a new player in that conflict threatens not just digital infrastructure in Israel but also critical systems in the US and around the world.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
14 Apr. 2025
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With autonomous, always-active agents, the risk of privacy invasion becomes even greater.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Josh Blank, who played soccer at Elon University from 2016 to 2019, worked in the NFL office for four years before officially joining his dad’s company.—
Josh Kendall,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Following the motorcycle accident, Williams worked as an analyst for CBS Sports Network before joining ESPN.—
Elise Devlin,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The drone attacks come as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged for the first time that his forces had staged an incursion into Russia's Belgorod region, although one military analyst told Newsweek that the operation was not an intensive one.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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That said, those incursions into Florida territory proved fruitless, which probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.—
Nick Ashbourne,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Today 30 species fly freely throughout Pelican Island and the surrounding archipelagos off the coast of Vero Beach.—
Kara Franker,
Southern Living,
4 Jan. 2025
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In another court challenge, the drama surrounding beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting significantly ramped up this week.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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In addition to witnessing bloodshed as a soldier and a journalist, Godwin has also lost his eldest sister, Jain, who was killed along with her fiancé and their best man in an army ambush in 1978, just weeks before her wedding.—
Dina Gachman,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The first-half ambush was the best show of the beautiful game yet from the expansion club, rewarding folks who wanted a Major League Soccer team in San Diego.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Flanking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flanking. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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