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as in flanked
to be adjacent to
the bedroom of their apartment adjoins their neighbor's living room
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as in added
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 adjoined
The new department will be located in what was previously Children's Wisconsin's emergency department, where the two hospitals are adjoined.
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Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Flay lives in the Morris Adjmic–designed Sterling Mason, a condominium composed of a 1905 red brick warehouse adjoined with a newer, metallic mirror image.
—Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Flay lives in the Morris Adjmic–designed Sterling Mason, a condominium composed of a 1905 red brick warehouse adjoined with a newer, metallic mirror image.
—Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjoined
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In a speech on the subject on the Senate floor in August, the senator was flanked by a placard with images of hemp products in packages mimicking snacks such as Doritos and Oreos.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
1 Oct. 2025
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On the other juries, director Kibwe Tavares, whose The Kitchen closed the festival in 2023, will preside over the First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award), flanked by Zurich Film Festival head programmer Anja Fröhner and director Nadia Latif (The Man in my Basement).—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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Connecticut added similar information at the top of denial letters in a box on the front page in 2023.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
7 Oct. 2025
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One year after becoming a mom for the first time, Alexis added Truman to the family just two days shy of his sister’s first birthday.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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Goad joined The Tennessean in 2016 as the business and entertainment editor and has been critical to the company’s digital growth, leading a dramatic expansion of music and entertainment coverage while elevating its enterprise business reporting.—
Nashville Tennessean,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025
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After injuring his left foot during fall camp, Wilson joined Vernell Brown III in the starting lineup, becoming the fourth pair of UF freshman pass catchers to start in a season.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
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Crimea struggles The situation seems to be the worst in Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Russia illegally annexed in 2014.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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It was followed by incremental advances, in the oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, which Moscow claims to have annexed but does not fully control.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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By weaving Hartley's story into the narrative, Murphy explored the fear and paranoia that surrounded rural Wisconsin during the time of Gein’s actual crimes.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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The top loft of the 1903 cast-iron Soho building hadn’t been touched in three decades.—
Wendy Goodman,
Curbed,
4 Oct. 2025
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Neve and Nala’s first encounter has touched so many hearts online, leading to more than 1,600 comments on the TikTok post so far.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Adjoined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjoined. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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