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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
South Dakota's Todd County is coextensive with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation
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as in concurrent
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the golden age of Dutch culture was roughly coextensive with the Netherlands' reign as a world power
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Recent Examples of coextensive
Beyond this subset of works, the chipmunk paintings are also coextensive with the entire body and thrust of her production.
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Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Being online was not coextensive with being alive.
—Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Being online was not coextensive with being alive.
—Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coextensive
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The previous concurrent playercount record for Fortnite was 11.6 million for the Big Bang.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Philo supports up to three concurrent streams, which is about average.PCMAG, PCMAG, 26 Nov. 2024
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.Seth Joseph, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Another suggestion is that there were two more or less coincident eruptions, one each in northern and southern hemispheres.Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2011
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With a lockable synchronic-tilt mechanism and special Z-Shape design, the Kaiser 2 can accommodate a weight up to 180kg, quite a bit more than normal mechanisms on office chairs and the back can be reclined to an angle of 160 degrees which can be locked when not in rocking mode.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
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For his last runway collection, unveiled in September, Michele constructed a parallel universe of side-by-side shows separated by a wall that when lifted revealed twins in identical looks in synchronic stride.Colleen Barry, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
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Captions must be accurate, synchronous with audio, complete and properly placed.Toby Wong, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Protecting endangered fireflies for the future The synchronous fireflies at Congaree was a local secret for a long time.Pien Huang, NPR, 26 May 2024
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Although their context may be different, the underlying principles are the same.Anna Anisin, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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There’s an underlying sense of loyalty between them, even post-divorce, with Apollo revealing that Toya had been asking about his marital affairs.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 9 Dec. 2024
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After being exonerated for murder, the singer goes on a roaring rampage of revenge against an unnamed person and any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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Israeli officials said the incident was coincidental and not based on intelligence.Barak Ravid, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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The nation’s period of domestic bliss was practically coterminous with the presidency of James Monroe, a Democratic-Republican whose landslide victory in 1816 accelerated the Federalist Party’s collapse.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
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From the moment of her father’s death and her subsequent coronation—receiving the Crown of St. Edward on her head, and bearing its almost five pounds of weight upright for the next three hours—the vast dimensions of her status as queen were coterminous with the diminutive dimensions of her person.Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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