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as in to join
to be adjacent to
the bedroom of their apartment adjoins their neighbor's living room
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as in to add
to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase
after the dictionary writer's talk, the principal adjoined a few remarks about her own love of words
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Recent Examples of adjoin
Plans also call for a private development adjoining the market, although specific details were not discussed on Monday.
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Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2024
Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor’s adjoining apartment.
—Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor's adjoining apartment.
—CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
Starting closer to the trunk of your artificial tree, adjoin a small, real sprig to a fake branch with a few twists of wire.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
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Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2024
Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor’s adjoining apartment.
—Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor's adjoining apartment.
—CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
Starting closer to the trunk of your artificial tree, adjoin a small, real sprig to a fake branch with a few twists of wire.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
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Finland, which shares an 832-mile border with Russia, joined NATO in 2023, abandoning a decades-old policy of neutrality.LORNE COOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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With Simmons and Cam Johnson sidelined, Shake Milton, Keon Johnson, Jalen Wilson and Nic Claxton joined him in the starting five.C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 28 Dec. 2024
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The bleak history of two-time Tommy John pitchers added risk as well.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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So around the turn of the 20th century, an enterprising tortilla maker developed a way to make masa behave more like wheat flour, dehydrating and packaging it so that tortillas could be made quickly by just adding water.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
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There was steak and shrimp and a cake decorated in the Israeli colors, with a Star of David flanked by musical notes.John Leland, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Small wreaths hung on the cabinets flanking the stove complement the garlands and enhance the symmetry in the room.Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Israel quickly annexed east Jerusalem — home to the city’s most sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites as well as its Palestinian population.Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Huckabee has advocated for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, which Israel occupied in 1967, and has backed Israeli settlers in the territory.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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In the coastal city of Jableh, where I was raised, and in the surrounding Alawite mountains, activists have estimated that tens of thousands of young men died fighting in Assad’s army, particularly in battles against opposition forces starting in 2011.Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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Debate surrounding mask and vaccine mandates drew from scientific studies on their role in COVID-19 transmission, but often glossed over a careful evaluation of the tradeoffs between public health and personal autonomy that were the true core of the issue.Christopher M. Worsham, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Maps by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) from January 2 and December 17 showed changes over the year in neighboring Luhansk oblast, where assessed Russian control of territory had increased south of Kupiansk and west of Bakhmut.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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The car will also soon be available in neighboring Singapore, through an agreement with VINCAR, an auto distributor.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 20 Dec. 2024
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The other guy touched the ball first, and there was a contact.Elias Burke, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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Oftentimes, prompts might touch on sensitive topics, and an LLM should try to make as impartial an answer as possible.Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Adjoin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjoin. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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