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as in concurrent
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne partnership was more or less coterminous with Broadway's golden age
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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
Massachusetts' Nantucket County isn't quite coterminous with the island of the same name, as the county includes two small nearby islets
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Recent Examples of coterminous
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.
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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
This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
They are not always codified in or coterminous with international law.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Clearly, then, the gambit is designed to have, coterminous with Trump’s criminal prosecution by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, a parallel probe of the Bidens.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
Tohoku then is coterminous with the former Emishi region.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
Although time was still widely regarded as fluid and coterminous with eternity, the monastery was governed by the rhythms of that most modern instrument: the clock.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
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
This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
They are not always codified in or coterminous with international law.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Clearly, then, the gambit is designed to have, coterminous with Trump’s criminal prosecution by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, a parallel probe of the Bidens.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
Tohoku then is coterminous with the former Emishi region.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
Although time was still widely regarded as fluid and coterminous with eternity, the monastery was governed by the rhythms of that most modern instrument: the clock.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coterminous
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Voters also rejected a concurrent proposition on the ballot that would have lowered the threshold needed to pass local bond measures from two-thirds to 55%.—
Kate Talerico,
The Mercury News,
20 Feb. 2025
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How this will be fiscally feasible remains in doubt for various budget reasons, including the Trump administration’s concurrent plans to increase spending on border security, energy, and defense.—
Bruce Brumberg,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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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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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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Time is rendered as a synchronous blend of moments, untethering and distorting any normative perspective.—
Sakhi Thirani,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Mar. 2023
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Well, considering the space telescope will be pretty much mapping everything in the sky from its special dawn-dusk sun synchronous orbit that keeps it cool enough to study infrared emissions — the list is endless.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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There was more screen time with J on Animal Kingdom, but with some of Michael’s past experiences and some of the depth that Steven had written into the character, there was more underlying and more to play, long-term.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
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Revenue and underlying profit rose year over year despite a 1.9% decline in sales volume.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
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Purely coincidental, said Heat Executive Vice President and Chief Marking Officer Michael McCullough.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Jan. 2025
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The protagonist’s name and her obsession with anthropology likely aren’t coincidental.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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While there is no suggestion that deposit insurance might be abolished, the FDIC has become so conterminous with the concept that (unfounded) worries were quickly raised on social media about the safety of money in banks.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
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According to the weather service, increased chances for above-normal temperatures are predicted across much of the central and eastern conterminous United States.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
1 Feb. 2024
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“Coterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coterminous. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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