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abutments

noun

plural of abutment
as in sutures

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  1. intersections
  2. attachments
  3. articulations
Noun
  • City officials say the cameras would target intersections with a history of serious and deadly crashes.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • This can be quickly verified using the example with n = 5 boundary points; in this case, there are B(5, 2) = 10 intersections.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of intersections
Noun
  • One of those emails, provided to the news organizations in July, included PDF attachments of the entire analysis.
    — Skyler Swisher, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
  • While the rights were picked up clean and without attachments, the project now has horror legend Sam Raimi and frequent producing partner Rob Tapert on board as producers.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of attachments
Noun
  • Only its articulations and the environment in which it is felt shift.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The 1984 speech that so moved Baldwin remains one of the greatest articulations of American liberalism ever made.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
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