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contiguous
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    In addition, certain families allied to the Nurses by blood or friendship, and whose farms were contiguous with the Nurse farm or close to it, combined to break away from the Salem town authority and set up Topsfield, a new and independent entity whose existence was resented by old Salemites.  (source)
    contiguous = sharing a boundary
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    The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick ... contiguous to absolutely nothing.  (source)
    contiguous = very close
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    A single contiguous continent covered the surface.†  (source)
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    But if you put the remaining areas up on the board, I think you'll find that the eight percent is topologically unified, meaning that those areas are contiguous.†  (source)
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    The latter was the eternal, living principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no longer an integral.†  (source)
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    Urine is conducted through a primitive urethra terminating in a small chamber contiguous with the anus-a sort of crude cloaca.†  (source)
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    Crops of unusual diversity grew in profusion and contiguity, with not an inch of ground untended.†  (source)
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    Every story, when we were children, revealed a lesson—"work hard" (the pioneers had no machines to dig their drainage lines or plant their crops), or "respect your elders" (an old man had no heirs, and left the farm to the neighbor kid who had cheerfully and obediently worked for him), or "don't tell your neighbors your business," or "luck is something you make for yourself " The story of how my father and his father came to possess a thousand contiguous acres taught us all these lessons, and though we didn't hear it often, we remembered it perfectly.†  (source)
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    In the civilized life of to-day the contact of men and their relations to each other fall in a few main lines of action and communication: there is, first, the physical proximity of home and dwelling-places, the way in which neighborhoods group themselves, and the contiguity of neighborhoods.†  (source)
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    This district is the largest contiguous planned community in the United States, and if you're black or Jewish, you weren't allowed to live there until 1948.†  (source)
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    The very contiguity of his enemy, beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale.†  (source)
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    Before Hester Prynne could call together her thoughts, and consider what was practicable to be done in this new and startling aspect of affairs, the sound of military music was heard approaching along a contiguous street.†  (source)
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    If, in immediate contiguity to the directing power, another power be established, which exercises almost as much moral authority as the former, it is not to be believed that it will long be content to speak without acting; or that it will always be restrained by the abstract consideration of the nature of associations which are meant to direct but not to enforce opinions, to suggest but not to make the laws.†  (source)
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