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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
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Pakistan was a noncontiguous Muslim-majority country, with West Pakistan (formed from the western Punjab) and East Pakistan (formed from the eastern Bengal) separated by about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of Indian territory.—
Andrew Pereira,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
11 Mar. 2026
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The earliest human settlers arrived on these noncontiguous lands tens of thousands of years ago, and the entity itself is, quite literally, a layer cake of ancient geological evolutions accrued over billions of years.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Dec. 2025
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Mercifully, those connections are not forged across time and space; all three stories remain discrete, never approaching a moment of grandiose metaphysical convergence.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Online records from Sacramento Superior Court show 12 discrete misdemeanor and 10 distinct felony cases dating back to 1994, including a felony case from 2012 in which he was sentenced as part of a plea deal.—
Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
6 May 2026
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“Nonadjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonadjacent. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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