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Recent Examples of self-consistent
What emerges is a self-consistent picture that lets a black hole retain its regular structure as predicted by general relativity, albeit with the presence of an implicit though powerful nonlocality.
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Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
In the weird geocentric frame where the Universe revolves around the Earth, that is self-consistent.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
In the weird geocentric frame where the Universe revolves around the Earth, that is self-consistent.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-consistent
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The defense says the injuries O'Keefe suffered were more consistent with a dog attack or beating inside the home.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Tesla’s first quarter earnings decline is consistent with the possibility that the company is losing its competitive advantage.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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And unlike misspellings or other mistakes, large swaths of coherent text don’t give the reader clues that the transcriptions could be inaccurate, potentially leading users to use them in high-stakes scenarios without ever finding their failures.—
Asmelash Teka Hadgu,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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Right now, though, a coherent A.I. policy seems well-nigh inconceivable.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Investors are not a monolithic group, and just like any other population or professional segment, investors are people who hold an assortment of priorities that can be congruent, conflicting, or divergent, and often all three at once.—
Christopher Marquis,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The requirement that executive orders be congruent with the Constitution and established laws becomes critical as the body politic reacts to a president’s executive orders.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Apple, Google, and Samsung use it in all their latest phones, and most smartphones are compatible with PD chargers.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Enter associate director Chloe (Bella Coppola), a former actress with a terrific singing voice whose body size, she’s been told repeatedly, isn’t compatible with the career of a leading lady.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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One of those studies was an on-site evaluation by Shoppers Drug Mart (Canada's largest retail pharmacy chain), which found concordant results between Truvian and a central laboratory.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Finding a common language is just one way in which medical schools, clinics, hospitals and health-care networks are working to address health disparities as part of an increasingly visible movement known as culturally sensitive or concordant care.—
Rod McCullom,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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This Winter Edition is a harmonious blend of Speyside single malts, including contributions from renowned distilleries such as Macallan, Mortlach and Glenrothes.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Seamlessly blend the indoor and outdoor living areas Harmonious materials between the indoor and outdoor space creates a harmonious connection.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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China remains a far cry from having the sort of labor unions and collective bargaining that are taken for granted elsewhere, but, as Steinfeld correctly argues, Chinese labor practices are moving away from their revolutionary roots and are increasingly consonant with Western standards.—
Simon Tay,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2010
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Where the republic’s hypocrisy fed its fatal weakness, corruption, the Taliban’s unabashed brutality was consonant with the movement’s strength, its unity.—
Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak,
New York Times,
22 May 2024
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“Self-consistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-consistent. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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