abut
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They start at abut $58,000 and $54,000, respectively.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
TotalEnergies will likely remain cautious abut its balance sheet and announce a $750 million share buyback, they write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
In the past, rumours abut the sci-fi drama have ranged from being close to spot on to utter fabrication.
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of people live around the Bien Hoa air base, and some of their homes abut the site’s perimeter fence, just yards from the contaminated areas.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
The hotels abut upon the actual sands, just as Arcachon abuts upon its shallow oyster-beds.
From The White Lie by William Le Queux
His 31-acre property abuts the Terafab site and shares about 4,000 feet of fence with Musk’s land.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The seven-story addition directly abuts the original building without seeming to touch it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Her family's home is part of a suburban development that abuts a massive construction site.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
His park abuts a new militarized zone that stretches 200 miles across a vast expanse of New Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2025
In London, where the river Thames arches away from the city near Belgravia, one might begin a walk at Vincent Square, the trapezoid-shaped park that abuts the office of the Royal Horticultural Society.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The tunnel had been there since before the war, said Mohammad Doghmosh, adding that it abutted a low building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Some of their farms even abutted the graveyard.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
Here in this tiny mountain community dotted with apple orchards east of Yucaipa, a flood had gutted a clapboard house that abutted a creek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
The library, which abutted the street, violated that policy.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
And since some of Crosby’s rooms abutted ours, he was an obvious person to interview.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Behind them the water is a luminescent strip of blue, abutting a silhouetted skyline in which many of the buildings belch smoke; a few of the industrial structures spew fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
An unknown projectile hit a cargo ship in the strategic Strait of Hormuz abutting Iran, causing a fire and forcing the crew to evacuate, a maritime security agency said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
The shrubs abutting the building had caught fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025
The city’s previous worst fire, the Sayre fire, destroyed 600 homes, mostly in a densely packed trailer park directly abutting the scrub; the 2018 Woolsey fire destroyed 1,600 homes north of the city.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
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.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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