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That puts the rest of the oil-producing countries that abut the Persian Gulf in a bind.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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

But after Lord Leveson published his report into the ethics of the press, police forces became much more cautious abut what information they released.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

Bland, or rather his man and boy, cultivated abut one half of the soil of his domain with plough and spade, getting amazingly heavy crops of corn and pulse.

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

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

Iran also abuts the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime chokepoint that controls access to the Persian Gulf.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

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 Van Ruijvens’ home in the 1660s and ’70s, a canalside house named the Golden Eagle, abutted a clandestine Remonstrant church and doubled as a Collegiant meetinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Some of their farms even abutted the graveyard.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023

After the fatality, authorities made “multiple efforts to trap and remove the bear” from an area that abutted homes, campgrounds and trails, including a search by an aircraft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

The library, which abutted the street, violated that policy.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Holmes acquired a ticket to a village called Englewood in the town of Lake, a municipality of 200,000 people that abutted Chicago’s southernmost boundary.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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 teen told Williams he was going to meet friends at the dirt road abutting the store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban design practices could make areas abutting wilderness safer from the kind of wildfire that hit Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

The line of cars crawled toward the parking lot and into an overflow field abutting a baseball complex.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024

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