neighboring

Example Sentences

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This competition pushed early crops to develop traits that helped them outgrow and outcompete neighboring plants, offering new insight into how crops evolve and how they might be improved in the future.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

In essence, the neighboring sale upped the ante as far as Behar’s listing is concerned—and also encouraged her agents to start thinking about other ways they could prove the home’s potential to prospective buyers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Yet that neutrality has not spared Kfar Chouba and neighboring villages from attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

It remains unclear how temporary changes to local weather will affect neighboring regions and the broader climate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

At the height of the American chestnut blight, every woodland breeze would lose spores in uncountable trillions to drift in a pretty, lethal haze on to neighboring hillsides.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson