as in proximity
the state or condition of being near environmentalists are concerned about the proposed shopping plaza's adjacency to the river

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Recent Examples of adjacency But that dynamic of an adjacency to national political power fueling a person’s dating identity is exactly what makes DC dating unique and (from all these news stories about people who hate dating there) so hostile. Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Establish Credibility In Adjacent Categories Exploring adjacencies in other categories is a priority. Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024 Meaningful adjacencies are all over Any Person: the journal as paratext to the life, the energy in being physically near other people, the reality and unreality of fiction. Hazlitt, 12 June 2024 Now, society may have evolved to a point where an African American pop queen's ability to naturally fall into a secure, sustainable place in country music – a genre with which she's always had a natural adjacency – has finally arrived. USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for adjacency 

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“Adjacency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjacency. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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