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abut
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  • I run along the edge of the road near the woods abutting the west side.†  (source)
    abutting = are adjacent (sharing a boundary)
  • It abutted too many subdivisions for it to be a good place to hide, whether you were a person or a body.†  (source)
    abutted = were adjacent (shared a boundary)
  • Its wood had barely weathered, nor that of the new gate and fence abutting.†  (source)
    abutting = are adjacent (sharing a boundary)
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  • The doors abutted one another so closely that the rooms behind them could not have been more than ten feet wide.†  (source)
    abutted = were adjacent (shared a boundary)
  • In the broad, covered corridor—the colonnaded kuthambalam abutting the heart of the temple where the Blue God lived with his flute, the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, their colors turning slowly in the night.†  (source)
    abutting = are adjacent (sharing a boundary)
  • The note inside said: Dear Harry and Ron, How Abut having tea with me this afternoon 'round six?†  (source)
    Abut = adjacent (sharing a boundary)
  • Horan and Murray are still convinced Nathaniel is close to trading his tunnel for an apartment, so much so that they're holding on to one that has just become available in a residential complex that abuts the back side of the Lamp property.†  (source)
    abuts = is adjacent to another (shares a boundary)
  • I looked at the little structure, barely as big as my bathroom, abutted against an identical box.†  (source)
    abutted = were adjacent (shared a boundary)
  • Meanwhile, Patrick walked into the abutting shower room and glanced out the window.†  (source)
    abutting = are adjacent (sharing a boundary)
  • The prize should preferably be a book abut philosophy for young people.†  (source)
    abut = adjacent (sharing a boundary)
  • Apo, himself a refugee whose ancestral home, Dras, abuts the Gultori, on the Indian side of the border, wandered from tent to tent, taking orders for urgently needed supplies.†  (source)
    abuts = is adjacent to another (shares a boundary)
  • It was two floors high, with a wide, timbered upper deck around the bedrooms, which abutted a tall, stone-walled shower, custom-made for me.†  (source)
    abutted = were adjacent (shared a boundary)
  • They walked across town, talking weightily of politics, across the Square, down Hatton Avenue, south into Church, and southwesterly along the bending road that ended in the schoolhouse on the abutting hill.†  (source)
    abutting = are adjacent (sharing a boundary)
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