How to Use simultaneous in a Sentence

simultaneous

adjective
  • The two gunshots were simultaneous.
  • Any change in the state of one of the particles triggers a simultaneous change in the state of the other.
    Dhananjay Khadilkar, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
  • Stocks and bonds have been in a simultaneous correction for the first time in decades.
    WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The rebels mounted simultaneous assaults to the north, forcing the roads to close for days.
    Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • One saving grace of these simultaneous slumps is that the two teams are well-matched.
    M.j., The Economist, 31 July 2019
  • Both of us swung our shotguns on the flock and triggered simultaneous shots.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2021
  • His daughter told him the videos only showed two of three simultaneous fights.
    Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The plan calls for two simultaneous firework displays — one on the north end and another on the south end of town.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
  • The boy seemed to trigger simultaneous fear and doting in his mother.
    Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 19 Apr. 2018
  • However, the simultaneous blows from the storm and her health have made the way ahead difficult.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Hours later, they were jolted awake by the simultaneous buzzing of their cell phones.
    Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The simultaneous presence of two or more diseases in a patient.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • There are not a lot of words that express two simultaneous emotions.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2021
  • The world’s youngest country faces the simultaneous scourges of civil war, famine and a cholera outbreak.
    Conor Gaffey, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2017
  • Some of the doctors ran simultaneous cases on just a handful of occasions over the past few years.
    Justin Mayo, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • The three gunmen were killed in simultaneous raids hours later.
    Sam Schechner and Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The team drew up a list of galaxies in the region of sky where the near-simultaneous events were detected and started looking for the source.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Subscribers can have up to five viewer profiles and watch on three simultaneous streams.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The union won the agreements after a six-week strike that was its first simultaneous walkout at all three companies at the same time.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That tells you quite a bit about the simultaneous chaos and uneventfulness of the Oscars this year.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Some may allow for simultaneous modes like flashing lights and music for even more fun.
    Casey Clark, Parents, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Also, the onset of crowd synchrony and the onset of bridge wobbling are not simultaneous.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2018
  • On Thursday, eight players at a time formed four teams to play two simultaneous games on one court.
    Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • But what none of us has ever experienced is a simultaneous shock in all three of these areas.
    World Economic Forum, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • What nearly all of these groups have in common is a simultaneous reliance on and pushing away from a foundation of jazz.
    Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The union had never engaged in a simultaneous strike against all three companies.
    Marley Jay, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The pandemic has marked a pause in the wave of unco-ordinated but simultaneous protest movements that crossed much of the world last year.
    The Economist, 8 June 2020
  • Leonard and Pollard never got up to speed with simultaneous fuel pump shaft failures on the restart.
    Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • That can leave people with a simultaneous sense of wanderlust and panic.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • One concern is whether a simultaneous spike in demand from workplaces could squeeze the available supply.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024

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