as in adjacent
having a border in common
the cows had broken through the fence and were grazing in the adjoining field
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as in neighboring
to be adjacent to
the bedroom of their apartment adjoins their neighbor's living room
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as in adding
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 adjoining
Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
The main bedroom has a spacious walk-in closet and garden access, while one of the guest rooms includes a small adjoining study/home office.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Police learned the shots came from inside the apartment building, with some residents reporting that shots had been fired through the walls of their units adjoining the man's apartment.
—Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Kids and thrill-seeking adults can also climb, bounce, and crawl through the treetop ropes and tunnels at the adjoining Skynet Playground and adventure park.
—Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
The main bedroom has a spacious walk-in closet and garden access, while one of the guest rooms includes a small adjoining study/home office.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
Her son, later identified as now 30-year-old Martin Caballero-Diaz, was found in the bathroom at the front adjoining home and detained, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Police learned the shots came from inside the apartment building, with some residents reporting that shots had been fired through the walls of their units adjoining the man's apartment.
—Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjoining
Adjective
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Less than two hours before the Raptors were scheduled to begin their home season with a game against the Milwaukee Bucks, head coach Darko Rajaković strolled into a small room adjacent to the team’s locker room, as usual.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The swinging chair adjacent to the queen bed is another great spot to relax and recharge.—
Gabriela Ulloa,
Architectural Digest,
25 Oct. 2025
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RidgeRunner has already bought a storefront in downtown Celina, the county seat in neighboring Clay County, and Abbotoy just closed on 1,000 additional acres in Jackson County.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Nissan traveled into neighboring Emeryville and collided with a parked car in the 6700 block of Hollis Street, according to police.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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From adding Von Miller to signing Joey Bosa, the team has been particularly aggressive in trying to find players that can pressure and contain Mahomes.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Shohei Ohtani’s two-way prowess has already forced Major League Baseball to revise its rulebook, adding provisions to protect his ability to pitch and hit in the same game.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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One of the two guards flanking him during the hearing then called him a liar, according to Zaher.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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But other times, the ability to sprint away from two flanking Hunters on Heroic mode is a welcome reprieve from watching Master Chief get ragdolled across a map over and over again.—
Alyssa Mercante,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Meet Cute founder Naomi Shah is joining Fox as senior vp operations and strategy, focusing on AI innovation, entertainment technology and IP expansion.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
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Before joining the assembly, Mamdani worked for a year at a housing nonprofit.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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The details surrounding the case, which became the subject of Netflix’s 2015 documentary Making a Murderer, remain unclear, with no official cause of death apart from homicide and no eyewitnesses to the crime.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Seeking justice, centuries later Though the frenzy surrounding witchcraft in England faded in the decades following the Maidstone trial, and all laws criminalizing witchcraft have long since been repealed, the convictions of those women – and hundreds like them – still stand.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Artificial intelligence is already touching many parts of the chip design flow—helping with placement and routing, predicting yield outcomes, tuning analog circuits, automating simulation, and even guiding early architecture planning.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2025
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Vance liked the variety, the novelty of touching the new hair, the new her.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Infinite Outdoors will continue to reach out to landowners abutting public lands to gain access.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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Surveillance video from at least one hotel abutting the alleyway showed Sanchez grabbing Tole and throwing him up against a wall.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Adjoining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjoining. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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