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Concomitant was introduced into English at a time when many people were criticizing the use of Latinate forms in favor of more "native" words from Old English. As a descendant of Latin concomitari ("to accompany") and ultimately of "comes," the Latin word for companion, "concomitant" may well have been initially derided as an ostentatious inkhorn term. Indeed, two associated words, the verb concomitate, meaning "to accompany," and another adjective, concomitaneous, meaning "of a concomitant nature," didn't survive to accompany "concomitant" into the 18th century.
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Stephen Whitty, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Feb. 1999
The Lincoln and Johnson plans for settling the problems of peace and freedom never seriously touched on the concomitant problem of equality.
—John Hope Franklin, "The Two Worlds of Race," 1965,
in Race and History, 1989
But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them.
—Thomas Jefferson 4 Feb. 1818,
in Thomas Jefferson: Writings, 1984
The drug's risks increase with the concomitant use of alcohol.
an improvement in the facilities led to a concomitant improvement in morale
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In the local bickering which was a concomitant of the grand campaigns of the wars, there may have been considerable fighting around fortifications, even if on a relatively small and brief scale.
—Anthony Goodman, The War of the Roses, (1981) 1996
… there is a demand for schools, professional services, and such other concomitants of a full society as courthouses and jails.
—Anthony Bailey, New Yorker, 25 May 1987
hunger, a lack of education, and other concomitants of poverty
disease is all too often one of the concomitants of poverty
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Helen Branswell, STAT, 21 June 2023
The imperative is fitting for a small, rural town nearly 100 miles from Houston, where one either worked for local plants or jumped into gangbanging and its concomitant hustles.
—Max Bell, SPIN, 29 June 2023
Patient navigation programs offer individualized assistance that can help patients access the right care in a timely fashion with concomitant psychosocial support along the way.
—Samyukta Mullangi and Vinayak Venkataraman, STAT, 31 May 2023
As for reductions in depression and anxiety, and improved quality of life and sleep, those areas could be concomitant—in addition to the cessation of substance use—for whole-life benefits.
—Korin Miller, Health, 11 May 2023
Abouzzohour said the pluses the media has played up are the economic ties, the concomitant strengthening of ties with the United States and the potential for Morocco to have a bigger role in helping bring about a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
—Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2021
By many critical reckonings, the medium’s adulthood was signaled by the rise of the antihero — your Tony Soprano, your Don Draper, your Walter White — and the concomitant appearance of the anti-villain, the appealing bad guy: Boyd Crowder, say, or Al Swearengen.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
Unless of course the spread of rice agriculture was concomitant with population replacement, as opposed to the spread of the allele itself.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2010
Although most occurrences of this common side effect, called ARIA, can be managed without complications, it is amplified in people taking concomitant blood-thinning medications to prevent clots, and has been associated with at least two deaths, including one first reported by STAT.
—Adam Feuerstein Reprints, STAT, 6 Jan. 2023
Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
My research deals with how a purely economic approach to copyright and a concomitant disregard for expressive freedoms threaten the digital domain.
—Hannibal Travis, The Conversation, 22 May 2023
The consequence, as noted above, was cities, and the inevitable concomitant of cities was states.
—George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
Meanwhile, occupation forces committed scores of atrocities in both countries — some the typical concomitants of war, some simply gratuitous crimes, as in the torture dungeon at Abu Ghraib and the Nisour Square massacre.
—Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
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“Concomitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concomitant. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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