Contiguous

The 48 states besides Alaska and Hawaii are referred to as the contiguous U.S., rather than the continental U.S. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

Both Bush and Kerry advocate the creation of a Palestinian state that would be viable and "contiguous" - that is, something more than a collection of little Bantustans like the pseudo-sovereign states set up by the old apartheid regime in South Africa. ❋ Unknown (2007)

During a 2009 speech to the Indianapolis Rotary Club, he called the state "the wild west of redistricting," complaining that the only rule governing the process is that districts have to be "contiguous" - and there's little clarification about what that means. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If, however, the U.S. turns Biden's word -- "contiguous" -- into a binding commitment, encompassing virtually all of the West Bank and Gaza, it would be hard for the Palestinians to walk away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Had I commanded, I should have moved in contiguous columns of brigades, my cavalry protecting my advance up to the enemy's position till within range of his guns, the troops so moving as to be able to anticipate any movement of the enemy to the discomfort of Ferozepore, and to enable me to throw the weight of the attack upon the right of the enemy, if, as I apprehended from all I had heard, he was as assailable upon his right as on any other given point. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The large and enduring threat that the U.S. and Israel are looking for can be described as a contiguous swath of land where the so-called radical Muslims roam unchecked. ❋ Unknown (2007)

International law recognizes that coastal nations may establish zones contiguous to their territorial seas, known as contiguous zones. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (1999)

I imagine that the notion of contiguous space-times with varying properties looks quite logical if you're used to thinking of a universe with an extremely small radius. ❋ ANDERSON, Poul (1981)

Interference with shipping beyond the so-called contiguous zone (another 12 miles beyond the 12 miles of territorial waters) would be also a violation of the freedom of the high seas, in this case aggravated if the ships in question were on a widely acknowledged humanitarian mission to break a criminally unlawful blockade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The explanatory variables we used were the log transformed recombination rate, the GC content, CpG count, the number of bases that are part of a poly (A/T) tract (defined as a contiguous stretch of at least 4 bp with only A's or only T's), the percentage sites in coding regions, the percentage of sites in UTR (in Genbank the designated mRNA which is not coding) and the percentage of sites not scanned. ❋ Per Sjödin Et Al. (2010)

There are 88732 distinct words that appear more than once, where a word is defined as a contiguous sequence of characters that can be typed with the thirty central keys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Congressional District 11 is "contiguous" only by including a causeway over Tampa Bay, and includes three separate counties. ❋ Alan Fein (2010)

I think we should start a petition to ban the word "contiguous" from the English language and common usage... along with that first "r" in February. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And, personally, I think the word "contiguous" just sounds bad - like you mispronounced "continuous". ❋ Unknown (2006)

I think writers just like "contiguous" because it makes them sound smarter to the general population. ❋ Unknown (2006)