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Strength in What Remains
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- At night the adjacent rooms filled up with other squatters.†
Chpt 1.2 *adjacent = nearby
- Other homeless men sometimes sat on the benches, but this spot was adjacent to very fancy neighborhoods, a spot that the police would pay attention to, so the men wouldn't sleep there, and they'd speak only in whispers, and the area was clean.†
Chpt 1.5
- For a long time, all he heard were his own echoing cries, and then at last his father's voice called from an adjacent slope.†
Chpt 1.7
- TWELVE New York City, 2006 On Central Park South, as usual, limousines were idling on one side of the street while on the other side, adjacent to the park — on what Deo called "the other shore" — a homeless man was sleeping on a bench with a cardboard box over his head.†
Chpt 2.12
- In a moment he was snapping pictures, peering in windows, climbing on the roof of the makeshift memorial adjacent to the church.†
Chpt 2.18
Definitions:
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(1)
(adjacent) very near -- often directly beside
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)