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Borrowed from Latinadiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō(“I lie beside”); from ad(“to”) + iaceō(“I lie down”).
2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
2018 December 25, “Faith Leaders Speak about Leading Through Natural Disasters; Who's Been Naughty and Nice in 2018 Politics?”, in New Day, Chris Cillizza (actor), via CNN, retrieved July 27, 2019:
First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.
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2008 March 27, Ingrid Lunden, “Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments”, in TechCrunch, retrieved July 26, 2019:
While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties.
Usage notes
This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e., "adjacent to". However, in the U.S., adjacent is sometimes used on its own.
References
Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2019 July 16) “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times, retrieved July 26, 2019