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adjacency

[uh-jay-suhn-see] / əˈdʒeɪ sən si /






NOUN
propinquity
Synonyms


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They analyze shopping patterns and adjacency to other lifestyle destinations, for example a fantastic coffee shop or restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

“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

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

Their position was at the southern extremity of the woodland crown, their placing probably inspired by the adjacency of the material required for their construction.

From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

He added that the company sees strong runway for growth ahead across its core wireless business and broadband, as well as what he called smart adjacencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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

For instance, at the Bristol Hotwells, the ready and fluent intercourse with Long Ashton, and a long line of adjacencies, is effectually obstructed by the necessity of an open water communication with the Bristol Channel.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg


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