abutments

plural of abutment

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Noun
  • The end destination was intended to be the Fan Festival, but the crowd stopped for more than 15 minutes at the intersections of Grand and Pershing Road to continue the party, throwing around inflatable balls, dancing and more.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
  • When intersections are flooded, pedestrians are more likely to cross in unsafe, unmarked areas, increasing the risk that they will be hit by a car.
    Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Those jack-of-all-trades attachments are part of it, but so are this Shark top seller’s four heat and three airflow options.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
  • Even the attachments are more impressive, like the Fluffy optic cleaner head, which now has a brighter green light to illuminate invisible dust on hardwood floors.
    Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 23 June 2026
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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“Abutments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abutments. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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