1
as in synchronous
existing or occurring at the same period of time
concurrent expeditions to the Antarctic that were in a race to reach the South Pole
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as in attending
present at the same time and place
the postwar period of prosperity and the concurrent baby boom are the major topics in this history of the 1950s
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Recent Examples of concurrent
The challenge is that streaming measurements are often calculated differently from traditional television audiences, which are based on average viewers throughout an entire telecast rather than concurrent viewers at specific moments.
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Bobby Burack Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
These plans have a limit of 1,200 concurrent sessions.
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Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
3 June 2026
At production scale, with thousands of concurrent users, the cost multiplier can reach 100x compared to a single API call—a reality the FinOps Foundation now flags as one of the fastest-growing sources of AI budget overrun.
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Satyabrat Chowdhury,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
But now the lake is facing multiple, concurrent threats.
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Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
31 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for concurrent
Bobby Burack Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
These plans have a limit of 1,200 concurrent sessions.
—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
3 June 2026
At production scale, with thousands of concurrent users, the cost multiplier can reach 100x compared to a single API call—a reality the FinOps Foundation now flags as one of the fastest-growing sources of AI budget overrun.
—
Satyabrat Chowdhury,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
But now the lake is facing multiple, concurrent threats.
—
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
31 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for concurrent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concurrent
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And every spring, thousands of people throw their names into a lottery for a chance to witness synchronous fireflies in the Smokies.
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Additional features include dual-cylinder synchronous jacking technology designed to improve climbing and tower-extension safety, along with an intelligent digital control system that monitors operations throughout the crane’s lifecycle.
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The killings were engineered to terrify the remaining Poles into fleeing westward, so extensive documentation was spread of the accompanying torture and mutilation.
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Winner, by night’s end, could clinch first place in Group D and an accompanying July 1 ticket to Levi’s Stadium to open the Round-of-32 knockout stage.
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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.
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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.
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The group is particularly interested in suspending, fracturing, and reconstructing time through which othered bodies and identities pass, and in exploring the attendant emerging fissures.
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Serious car accidents spiked in the pandemic years, along with attendant medical costs, driving premiums up further.
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So, too, do simultaneous hermaphrodites, a collection of creatures that includes most species of land snails, slugs, and earthworms.
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The team believes that finding food or reproducing may have been simultaneous drivers for her journey.
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This total encompasses the energy output alongside its associated capacity and environmental attributes.
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The reality, however, of running and building a business and all the associated performance management, which most politicians know absolutely nothing about, is very different.
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Her humor is coincident with a total seriousness.
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Will start doing upgrades in volume in a few months, coincident with more FSD features being released.
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Part of what fascinated me about their presentation was not only their refusal to kowtow to male desire, which for decades had a stranglehold on rock aesthetics, but a concomitant disavowal of commercialism.
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The question users need to ask is whether the convenience concomitant with AI’s intelligence is worth the exchange of their intimate data.
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“Concurrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concurrent. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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