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How to pronounce abutment
“abutment” pronunciation in American English
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“abutment” in real sentences
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skidway, or monkey slide as it was called, which operated through the Nevada abutment excavation.
National Archives
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Maine Turnpike at a hundred miles an hour and deliberately drive into a bridge abutment.
Veritasium
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So they were going to have this bridge abutment on this cement fill that plugged, ----
USGS
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this was cut into the Rock along the east abutment and was 70 ft wide although
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