diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py b/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py
index 2db8655a882ca..c8a0a365dcc28 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from collections import abc
+from itertools import pairwise
 import types
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
@@ -417,13 +418,11 @@ def concat(
         if (
             intersect
             or any(not isinstance(index, DatetimeIndex) for index in non_concat_axis)
-            or all(
-                prev is curr for prev, curr in zip(non_concat_axis, non_concat_axis[1:])
-            )
+            or all(prev is curr for prev, curr in pairwise(non_concat_axis))
             or (
                 all(
                     prev[-1] <= curr[0] and prev.is_monotonic_increasing
-                    for prev, curr in zip(non_concat_axis, non_concat_axis[1:])
+                    for prev, curr in pairwise(non_concat_axis)
                     if not prev.empty and not curr.empty
                 )
                 and non_concat_axis[-1].is_monotonic_increasing
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cd151ad7bbe27..694f555f0d620 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -453,7 +453,6 @@ exclude = [
 "pandas/core/groupby/grouper.py" = ["B905"]
 "pandas/core/groupby/ops.py" = ["B905"]
 "pandas/core/methods/to_dict.py" = ["B905"]
-"pandas/core/reshape/concat.py" = ["B905"]
 "pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py" = ["B905"]
 "pandas/core/reshape/melt.py" = ["B905"]
 "pandas/core/reshape/merge.py" = ["B905"]