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Recent Examples of nonadjacent
The regulations specify that AVAS sounds must cover four separate, nonadjacent octave bands.
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John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonadjacent
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Unaccompanied children from noncontiguous countries will now be included in the calculation of encounters — a change from the interim rule.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
30 Sep. 2024
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That debate finally reached a conclusion last month, when the board of supervisors passed a zoning change that keeps developers from building on what is known as prime agricultural soil on property that has more than five noncontiguous acres of it.—
Antonio Olivo,
Washington Post,
3 July 2024
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With the help of advanced transmission electron microscopy, the team revealed the gold was not forming continuous films, as previously thought, but existed as discrete nanoparticles.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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Dell sells a discrete-GPU option to make this a media-editing machine for creative users, which adds to the already significant cost.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Nonadjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonadjacent. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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