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adjacency

[uh-jey-suhn-see] / əˈdʒeɪ sən si /






NOUN
propinquity
Synonyms


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“In fact, we believe hyperscalers are more likely to attempt head-on competition, going after GPU cloud business as the natural adjacency to traditional cloud,” which could cannibalize CoreWeave’s business.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

But with a few smaller parts and a lifetime of Hollywood adjacency under her belt, Johnson herself was experienced enough to pull off Anastasia’s dolting ignorance.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2025

A middlebrow elite earning dominion over an appendage of government for no reason other than their familiarity and adjacency to someone more powerful than them?

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

Some persons referred to the quarter as a slum, and ironically insisted on its adjacency to the Wesleyan chapel, as though that was the Wesleyan chapel's fault.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

“We’re very focused on these adjacencies that are very close to our core business, like BESS,” he said, meaning battery-energy storage systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

When that happens, new adjacencies yield fresh insights, introducing confusion where certainty once prevailed.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

It seems to me that there are two problematic adjacencies.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

We then calculated the adjacencies with the optimal soft-thresholding power estimated above and transformed the adjacency into a topological overlap matrix to calculate the corresponding dissimilarity.

From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017

No. Some have always been protected by their remoteness, many by their adjacencies.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp




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