circumjacent

Definition of circumjacentnext

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Adjective
  • The system, which serves 100,000 residents in Iowa City and its surrounding, mostly rural communities, typifies the challenges most libraries face.
    Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Since then, the bustling market serves the surrounding and significant Latino community and others.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ciba treats them not as sweet peripheral matter, but as records of reading under pressure.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • The frontline team member, the mid-level manager navigating competing priorities, the customer-facing employee absorbing feedback in real time—these people are not peripheral to your strategy.
    Amanda Pascale, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • The saints’ days are celebrated, the great days of history are celebrated, and they’re celebrated with this sort of enormous exuberance and deep investment that is somehow very, very touching, very embracing, and very inclusive.
    Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Furthermore, Morris believes that the tvScientific acquisition expands Pinterest’s reach into connected TV advertising, expanding the value of the platform’s users offsite.
    TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • By simply looking at the exam paper, the glasses could transmit questions to a connected AI large language models, which generated answers and displayed them on the lenses.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
Adjective
  • But in most of the country, the AI infrastructure boom has likely had a more marginal impact on electricity prices compared to grid damage sustained by extreme weather events or the costs of utility companies’ capital expenditures that are passed on to consumers.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • The $100 won will be considered taxable income and subject to taxation at the taxpayer’s marginal tax rate.
    Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • Underneath the mesh fabric, the speaker has a flat, plastic base with a physical mute switch on one side near the attached power cord.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • The beast screamed and flew away, pulling an attached anchor into the water.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 June 2026
Adjective
  • Znotins acknowledges that the airline makes prices for those non-connecting trips expensive to discourage non-connecting customers from booking them.
    Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Kar, the company’s CEO, was a founding team member at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw Juniper Networks’ entire Ethernet portfolio before the two joined forces at Auradine, a blockchain and AI chip startup where Upscale was incubated.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • The 28-year-old has won eight Grands Prix across nine seasons for Ferrari, having initially joined the joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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“Circumjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumjacent. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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