How to Use contiguity in a Sentence

contiguity

noun
  • So the temporal-contiguity effect was confirmed in the first dataset.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2018
  • The West Bank is like an archipelago, in terms of contiguity and services.
    — Alice Su, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2013
  • From its earliest episodes, Orange has used the art of contiguity—placing certain scenes next to each other—to make explicit points.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 July 2019
  • Martin said the rules on contiguity should be re-examined and that councilmanic districts should stay as close as possible to school districts.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2021
  • Many other features of space, besides its contiguity, may also reflect entanglement.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • Residents in each city will help set the boundaries based primarily on equal population, common interests and contiguity.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 May 2017
  • Most states have rules regarding the contiguity of districts and their compactness, and to ensure that political boundary lines and neighborhoods remain in the same district.
    — Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Republican plans proposed districts with literal contiguity, but the judges opted for a Democratic approach that did not.
    — David A. Lieb and Scott Bauer, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Proximity to a central farmstead and contiguity with existing fields is important.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And yet the Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees aren’t bound by much beyond geographical contiguity, with plenty of differences that could divide them.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The legislature must immediately start drawing new maps, the court said, demanding that they be drawn based on criteria like population, contiguity, and county lines.
    — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • State lawyers contend that Democrats have no legal right to bring the challenge and that the maps are in compliance with traditional redistricting principles such as compactness and contiguity.
    — CNN, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The settlement would deny territorial contiguity to parts of East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want to make their capital.
    — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Instead, criteria included factors such as population equality and district contiguity, as well as some past election results and an effort to protect incumbent officeholders.
    — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • By law the commission had to consider such factors as population, contiguity, compactness, local jurisdictions and communities of interest.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Alabama law requires contiguity as a prerequisite for incorporation.
    — al, 3 July 2021
  • The process instead is based on 2020 census data, collective input from people throughout the county of San Diego, and apolitical criteria such as contiguity and compactness of districts.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2021
  • In adopting new district boundaries for Congress and the statehouse, the commission takes into account population, contiguity and compactness, local jurisdictions and communities of interest.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Maps would prioritize population equality, compactness, contiguity, and communities of interest, with no favoritism toward incumbents.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Since the 1980s, the group’s writings have emphasized the heterogeneity of Caribbean history, the fundamental contiguity of life and literature with ecology, and a tradition of oral storytelling that has become the touchstone of Chamoiseau’s oeuvre.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Knock-on proliferation is typically the result of preexisting rivalries and heavily conditioned by geographic contiguity, as exemplified by Pakistan’s pursuit of a bomb in response to Indian proliferation.
    — Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025

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