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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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They analyze shopping patterns and adjacency to other lifestyle destinations, for example a fantastic coffee shop or restaurant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
“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
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
I fancy that he felt that he would venture anything to escape our adjacency to the battery.
From The Dark Forest by Sir Hugh Walpole
He added that the company sees strong runway for growth ahead across its core wireless business and broadband, as well as what he called smart adjacencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
We were, at least, the general discoverers of the Magellanick region, and have hitherto held it with all its adjacencies.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson
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