How to Use adjacency in a Sentence

adjacency

noun
  • Roche seconds this idea of bottling fame, or, at least, fame adjacency.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The best that could be hoped for was the intimate adjacency of the facing page.
    Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • From his garage to room after room, the house is packed with the detritus of fame adjacency.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
  • That adjacency to nature forms the core of forestry’s appeal.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In other words, the kind of boy-mom power adjacency most women have had to be content with for centuries.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There's no better place than art to find your color adjacencies and color theories.
    Eleni N. Gage, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2026
  • That adjacency is not branding.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The adjacency of his experience and that last-gasp of Brideshead throwback sparked his practice.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Once a sleepy industrial backwater (the adjacency to the railroad was an asset), the place has changed with the times.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But as the Big Ten showed in the past, adjacency to TV sets has value whether or not they are turned to a game.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Landlords are already looking for ways to inflate rents for spaces with sidewalk space and parking space adjacency.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2021
  • That moment wasn’t just celebrity adjacency.
    Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 25 June 2026
  • Along the way, a city is constructed, but that largely affects play due to adjacency rules, as buildings can’t be next to one another.
    Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2018
  • Irpin has loomed large symbolically in the war not just because of its adjacency to the capital.
    New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • These kinds of adjacencies also make capital planning more efficient.
    Achal Singi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • And as his notoriety grew, Imanuel received a corresponding amount of criticism for his moniker and its adjacency to the n-word.
    Alex Wong, GQ, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But that model of adjacency is irrelevant and increasingly superfluous in a world in which there is so much content.
    John Williams, New York Times, 18 June 2017
  • Due to its close adjacency to water, the house’s steel and masonry components are under more threat of decline over time than in a standard countryside retreat.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 15 May 2025
  • Due to its close adjacency to water, the house’s steel and masonry components are under more threat of decline over time than in a standard countryside retreat.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
  • The two countries share far more than adjacency on a world map; the cultural histories of eastern Slovakia and Ukraine are deeply entwined.
    Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The glistening length of Klum’s earthworm, with its visual adjacency to both male genitalia and excrement, is surely far from femme-y.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Yet beyond rarity and badge adjacency, value lies in the audacity of the idea and the precision of its execution.
    Eric Hendrikx, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Pursue interests, passions and talents regardless of the adjacency to your current career.
    Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Look for skill adjacencies—skills related to your current role that are becoming more valuable with AI integration.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Its adjacency to the lake provides a temperate maritime influence, and helps make this Italy’s most northern Mediterranean climate.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • There was also concern around the adjacency to an existing single family home in the area — the only remaining home from what was once a neighborhood made up of families who worked at the mill.
    Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, more shoe adjacency offerings such as hosiery, eyewear, cold weather accessories, and handbags, primarily focused on the beaded trend.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Guerro’s column is honest and vulnerable, delving into the perils/pitfalls of white adjacency and the internalized shame many feel because of it.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But the 39-year-old singer-songwriter also wanted to make sure that country’s adjacency to R&B got accentuated in some of the new songs.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The space, ideal for the South County coastal enclave whose denizens relish their seaside adjacency, is meant to reflect the Cycladic islands (think oceanic blues and whites).
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025

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