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as in joins
to be adjacent to
the bedroom of their apartment adjoins their neighbor's living room
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as in adds
to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase
after the dictionary writer's talk, the principal adjoined a few remarks about her own love of words
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Recent Examples of adjoins
Grab Afternoon Tea Stop into Heritage Bakery & Cafe, a cozy spot that adjoins Harrisonburg's welcome center, to delight in whimsical refreshments served on delicate china.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjoins
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Pinstripes joins countless other retailers shuttering doors Pinstripes is certainly not the first company to file for bankruptcy and shut its doors this year.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The anime joins a comedy starring Cannes Film Festival best actor winner Yakusho Koji and a biographical drama about Japan’s most controversial fortune-teller in Netflix’s anniversary slate.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
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An initial jolt of spicy pink pepper dissipates to reveal a rose dripping in honeyed, ambery sweetness, while its leathery base adds strength, dimension, and something a little bit naughty to this fruity-floral triumph of a scent.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Firewall training with FortiGate adds another layer, showing you how to set up rules and interfaces that keep systems secure.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Once a working farm in the time of the gold rush, since 1962 the Greenhorn has been a place where the day is taken at a leisurely pace, where visitors soak in the 600 acres that abuts to 500,000 more acres of public land.—
Jenny Peters,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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The land, unfenced, abuts a bald blackened hillside that must be public land.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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These actions reduce the mystery that surrounds technology and help employees see it as an ally for workplace innovation.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Others are greedily consuming matter that surrounds them in a flattened, swirling cloud called an accretion disk.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But Hawley flanks the familiar creature from the movies with a variety of new monsters that get unleashed in the Maginot crash.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
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Folks know that the injuries where nobody touches you are usually, probably the most serious ones.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Planting Dignity in Every Backyard Food insecurity touches forty-four million Americans, thirteen million of them children.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Adjoins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjoins. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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