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Origin of adjacency
From the Late Latin word adjacentia, dating back to 1640–50. See adjacent, -ency
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“In fact, we believe hyperscalers are more likely to attempt head-on competition, going after GPU cloud business as the natural adjacency to traditional cloud,” which could cannibalize CoreWeave’s business.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
But with a few smaller parts and a lifetime of Hollywood adjacency under her belt, Johnson herself was experienced enough to pull off Anastasia’s dolting ignorance.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2025
A middlebrow elite earning dominion over an appendage of government for no reason other than their familiarity and adjacency to someone more powerful than them?
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025
We have laid open our borders to such an enterprise, even taking the trouble to leave unguarded many towns whose adjacency to the border is singularly perilous.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
“We’re very focused on these adjacencies that are very close to our core business, like BESS,” he said, meaning battery-energy storage systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It seems to me that there are two problematic adjacencies.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020
We then calculated the adjacencies with the optimal soft-thresholding power estimated above and transformed the adjacency into a topological overlap matrix to calculate the corresponding dissimilarity.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
We haven’t even talked about adjacencies like education and Evernote for Business.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2016
Delhi and Agra, with their vast adjacencies, had become ours.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
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