as in attendant
present at the same time and place
you can enjoy your video games in here, but preferably without the accompanying sound effects
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as in escorting
to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship
children using the pool must be accompanied by a parent at all times
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as in coinciding
to occur or exist at the same time
a general feeling of weariness often accompanies a cold
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Recent Examples of accompanying
Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2025
Foster has controlled the work, and controlled his image, and controlled the images made by him: a Foster + Partners project will almost always have its accompanying Norman Foster sketches, often made retrospectively, rather than in the heat of design.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
While a note accompanying the EPA’s report stated that workers have the greatest exposure to the chemical, the agency’s risk assessment adopted weaker standards for protecting workers from formaldehyde than had been proposed in a previous draft.
—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
The price tag for the City Hall and an accompanying Council Chamber project is $10.65 million, with approximately $7.9 million allocated for City Hall and $2.75 million for new Council Chambers, which were moved to the city’s community center on Camino Del Avignon in May.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2025
Foster has controlled the work, and controlled his image, and controlled the images made by him: a Foster + Partners project will almost always have its accompanying Norman Foster sketches, often made retrospectively, rather than in the heat of design.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
The clinking sound accompanying each flare is a sonification, a way of representing data through audio.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
While a note accompanying the EPA’s report stated that workers have the greatest exposure to the chemical, the agency’s risk assessment adopted weaker standards for protecting workers from formaldehyde than had been proposed in a previous draft.
—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
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In an effort to improve birth rates, new drugs, with their attendant side effects, have been added to the standard protocols in the decades since 1978, when the first IVF baby was born.—
Kristen V. Brown,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2025
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The 2025 Grammys and its attendant MusiCare event has also announced a focus on wildfire relief efforts.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
22 Jan. 2025
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And, coinciding with the holiday, the space station could easily double as Santa's sleigh to innocent eyes.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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The study show that a major volcanic pulse occurred about 30,000 years before the impact, coinciding with at least a 5 degrees cooling of the climate.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Robles and his mom Judy Robles were attending, too.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2025
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Officers arrived at the scene to find a group of people, including juveniles, attending a party at a rental house.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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Yoga is known to build core strength and improve flexibility and balance, helping prevent falls and associated injuries.—
Erica Sweeney,
SELF,
23 Jan. 2025
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Their associated element is Water, which symbolizes flow, adaptability and balance.—
Joseph Sudhip,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Saint Alphonsus is still seeing some sporadic RSV cases and typical COVID cases for this time of year, Kitamura said.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Jan. 2025
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The games have been about playing spoiler in the NFC playoff picture and seeing what on this 2024 roster is transferrable to the future.—
Saad Yousuf,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Accompanying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanying. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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