as in proximity
the state or condition of being near
environmentalists are concerned about the proposed shopping plaza's adjacency to the river
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Recent Examples of adjacency
Look for skill adjacencies—skills related to your current role that are becoming more valuable with AI integration.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Such adjacency to vegetation — especially in regions like the arid Western US, which is prone to fires — directly increases a city’s risk because blazes that typically begin in brush and shrubbery can move quickly through abundant fuel sources.
—Li Zhou, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Move from traditional audience development activities about volume to an audience insight function that focuses on behaviors and unmet needs to find adjacencies.
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the crowd, seen through the roving, irony-hungry cable-news cameras, was all farcical adjacency: Jared Kushner sat not far from Zuckerberg, both shaking hands robotically and otherwise playacting at human social skills.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Such adjacency to vegetation — especially in regions like the arid Western US, which is prone to fires — directly increases a city’s risk because blazes that typically begin in brush and shrubbery can move quickly through abundant fuel sources.
—Li Zhou, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Move from traditional audience development activities about volume to an audience insight function that focuses on behaviors and unmet needs to find adjacencies.
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the crowd, seen through the roving, irony-hungry cable-news cameras, was all farcical adjacency: Jared Kushner sat not far from Zuckerberg, both shaking hands robotically and otherwise playacting at human social skills.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjacency
proximity
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Privacy technology has experienced a renaissance (evident in Monero’s price action and advances in zero-knowledge research) partly as a course correction against crypto's uncomfortable proximity to establishment power.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 May 2025
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“Adjacency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjacency. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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