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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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In the fourth quarter of 2022, Huntington had just two AI agents—discrete programs running inside the business.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Electrons within atoms could only occupy a series of discrete energy levels, demonstrating that nature was often discrete, not always continuous.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Nonadjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonadjacent. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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