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Being next to something is a full-time career in politics, Excel, and gossip.
means The state of being next to, adjoining, or bordering something else.
from From Latin adjacens, 'lying near,' itself from ad- ('toward') plus iacere ('to lie, to throw oneself down') — the same root that gives us 'adjacent.' The word has quietly expanded from describing map borders to describing cells in a spreadsheet and favors traded near a politician, proving that lying close to power has always been the point.
- math sense
- two nodes connected by one edge, nothing more
- power move
- stand near influence, borrow its glow
- spreadsheet trick
- adjacent cells let formulas cheat gracefully
- risk
- guilt by proximity, no crime required