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as in adjacent
having a border in common
for two nations that are conterminous from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the U.S. and Canada have had remarkably little strife
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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
the county and the school district are conterminous
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Recent Examples of conterminous
In 1999, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the species as threatened throughout the conterminous United States under the Endangered Species List.
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Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
—Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
—Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conterminous
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The original store survived the transformation of Town & Country Village into Santana Row more than 20 years ago, and for the past decade has been in a space facing Winchester Boulevard that’s outside but adjacent to the swanky shopping center — a spot that’s had its own benefits.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Seven Ohio House races to be decided in central Ohio counties adjacent to Franklin Two candidates with Statehouse experience face two challengers for two Ohio Senate seats This story was updated to add a video.Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 5 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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Which means the city’s Downtown First Thursdays event is back to serve up a bunch of free fun from 5 to 10 p.m. on 2nd Street, between Howard and Market streets (and several adjoining alleyways).Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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But two years ago, the club and its adjoining nonprofit, the Players Foundation for Theatre Education, embarked on a massive restoration of the Booth Room, hoping to refurbish every inch of the space — which, this summer, meant finally opening the cabinet.Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2024
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There's also the vast and the invisible underlying logic telling everything how to function.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Since the intelligence agencies do not usually bother to debunk such individual bits of false propaganda, the sudden flurry of public notifications indicates the severity of the threat that U.S. spies now see in the underlying Russian plot against the election.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Here's a look at how Milton and past notable hurricanes — including Helene last month — that have made landfall on the contiguous United States since Sandy have compared in size at the point of landfall: Can't see our graphics?Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
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While the Northern Lights aren’t typically visible in the contiguous United States, there are plenty of destinations travelers can go to increase their chances of seeing the amazing phenomenon from Iceland to Alaska, Finland, Sweden, and even the Scottish Highlands.Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 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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This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
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“Conterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conterminous. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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