nonadjacent

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Recent Examples of nonadjacent The regulations specify that AVAS sounds must cover four separate, nonadjacent octave bands. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • There were also images and videos taken from a discrete location, possibly behind foliage or a balcony, of children at a public pool, the report read.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
  • The three sections, ‘The Garden,’ ‘The Replica,’ and ‘Then Roses,’ contain several discrete instances of restaging the same poem – ‘The Twenty-First Century,’ ‘Author’s Myth,’ ‘Borges Sells Me the Apple, Sells Me the World’ – as Sisyphean attempts.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025

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“Nonadjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonadjacent. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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