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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

The adjacency of the edge of the culvert warned him of what had befallen.

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell

“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

Delhi and Agra, with their vast adjacencies, had become ours.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various




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