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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
Regardless of the type of adjacency, what is significant is the element that separates the immediate from the mediated.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
It referenced “new growth adjacencies and the benefit from AI adoption,” Macquarie says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
When that happens, new adjacencies yield fresh insights, introducing confusion where certainty once prevailed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
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
No part of our Indian empire, or of its adjacencies, but has occupied the researches of our Oriental scholars.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
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