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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. 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
Adjective
  • And Carpenter now owns the longest such streak among women, surpassing Cardi B, who had three concurrent top 10s for four weeks in 2018.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In addition to four straight EPL titles, last season saw City become the first club to hold concurrent titles in the FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup, in addition to the Premier League trophy.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Lucky for Southerners, our region is home to all kinds of one-of-a-kind natural experience—from catching the synchronous fireflies in Great Smoky Mountain National Park or Congaree National Park to kayaking to see bioluminescent plankton in Vero Beach, Florida.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
  • More than half the day has to be live for it to be considered synchronous.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The unidentified patient was over 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions, the agency said.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That includes children, pregnant people, older adults and anyone with underlying conditions such as asthma or heart and lung conditions.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, that is coincidental, but the Cardinals are a great rebound matchup for Stafford, Puka Nacua and even Cooper Kupp.
    Jake Ciely, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
  • To this day, the couple’s coincidental deaths remain mysterious.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Coextensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coextensive. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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