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• s  very close or connected in space or time
  contiguous events
• s  connecting without a break; within a common boundary
  the contiguous 48 states
• s  having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"
  Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho

• The solar eclipse and the solar flare up were two contiguous events and therefore generated a lot of interest.

• immediate
• conterminous
• adjacent
• neighboring

News & Articles

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• Council to Extend Deadline a Year for ‘Substandard’ Policy
  While giving unanimous preliminary approval to an ordinance designed to ensure that the City of Falls Church’s 220 contiguous “substandard” residential lots “be considered combined” for purposes of zoning rulings, the F.C. City Council Monday night extended for over a year the date when such a policy would become legally [...]
  June 13, 2013 - Falls Church News-Press
• Legislature advances GMO labeling bill
  Maine food retailers would have to put special labels on products that contain genetically modified ingredients, under a measure advanced by the House. The measure debated Tuesday would also ban products that are genetically engineered from being labeled as "natural." It wouldn't go into effect until five contiguous states, including Maine, pass similar laws. The bill awaits final approval in ...
  June 12, 2013 - WMTW Portland
• Entourage Adds Claims to Odin Copper-Gold Property, Near North ROK Discovery and Red Chris Mine, Northwest B.C.
  Entourage Metals Ltd. is pleased to announce it has expanded the area of its recently announced Odin copper - gold Property . The additional 4 claims, contiguous and to the south west and to the north ...
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• President Bush in Whitehouse.gov (press release)
  All right, the other piece of language that I wanted to ask you about is this use of the word "contiguous," and when President Bush, in his statement just now, says, for example, "They must ensure that the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous,...
• Condoleezza Rice in Christian Broadcasting Network
  The United States has made clear that we expect it to be a viable and contiguous state when it is created,said Rice.
• Christopher Pyne in The Age
  Israel's ever-expanding settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory poses the single greatest threat to the establishment of an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state, and hence, to a just and lasting peace between... Saeb Erekat http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeb_Erekat&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGQA8OI3GbGtb10VDb1JkFOLTZYCQ International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/04/news/Israel-Palestinians.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH1KasbPipflXAC9WayZC6m_3apfA Dec 4, 2007 21798 29342 continence Continence management, being one of the important parts of the standards and given the situation in Broughton Hall - which of course is suspected gastroenteritis or even salmonella - I have today asked the department to conduct a full review audit...