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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
Adjective
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Bliss spent nearly two years away from WWE after giving birth, returned to much fanfare and then found herself without a consistent TV role with no logical explanation.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Indeterminate tomatoes are the vining tomato plants that can reach up to 12 feet or higher with their consistent growth.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
30 Mar. 2025
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In a landscape where so many shows foreground reveals and plots, Adolescence centers an emotional reality, one that can’t be cut around or spliced to create something coherent or streamlined.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
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Either the president has no coherent plans, or those plans are devious and not to be shared with the people.—
Llewellyn King,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 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
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And contrary to the claims of many activists, the preferences of the Palestinian people are not always congruent with the demands of Palestinian nationalism.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The company notes that the P21 is compatible with the iPhone 16 series for seamless file transfers and that users can record Apple ProRes videos directly to the SSD.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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The latest cycle of iPhone software, iOS 18, is compatible with all iPhones from the iPhone Xs from 2018 onwards.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Southgate knew how to create a harmonious environment.—
Philipp Lahm,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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Medium-full with excellent depth of fruit, perfectly ripe fruit, very good acidity, medium-full tannins that are well-balanced and restrained wood notes, The finish is lengthy and harmonious, with excellent fruit persistence.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 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 5 Apr. 2025.
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