as in adjacent
having a border in common
Connecticut and Massachusetts are contiguous states
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Players from schools in the contiguous SEC states and the former Confederacy vs. players from everywhere else.
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Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
This middle-level targeting should be combined with a more careful sequencing of law enforcement operations, coupled with advance deployment of law enforcement forces, to weaken the cartels’ influence in an expanding ring of contiguous territories.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
About 500 miles from Washington, its closest U.S. neighbor, Alaska isn’t the easiest destination to reach from the contiguous states, but these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest prove why a trip is worth the effort.
—Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Intrastate flights outside the contiguous United States were excluded.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
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Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
This middle-level targeting should be combined with a more careful sequencing of law enforcement operations, coupled with advance deployment of law enforcement forces, to weaken the cartels’ influence in an expanding ring of contiguous territories.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
About 500 miles from Washington, its closest U.S. neighbor, Alaska isn’t the easiest destination to reach from the contiguous states, but these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest prove why a trip is worth the effort.
—Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Intrastate flights outside the contiguous United States were excluded.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Contiguous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contiguous. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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