contiguity

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"They also don't just associate that word with an object based on temporal contiguity without really understanding the meaning of those words, but they activate a memory of an object when they hear its name."

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024

“Since the distance between town and island is slight, we do not think the failure of the legislative plan to achieve literal contiguity a serious demerit,” the judges wrote in 1992.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2023

Then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government said the latter move would help "provide Palestinian territorial contiguity" in the West Bank and make it easier for Palestinians to live a normal life.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023

This suggestion of contiguity between the filmic world and the real one is reinforced by the fact that both Sotoudeh and Panahi went on well-publicized hunger strikes during their own time in prison.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2015

The novel idiom became the language of those only with whom the court-language, whatever it be, will ever prevail—the men who by their contiguity to the great affect to participate in their influence.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac