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Examples of concordant in a Sentence
All three tests have concordant results.
the movie's opening-weekend gross was fairly concordant with box-office returns for that genre
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Overall, 27 of the respondents (19 percent) had different gender identities at the time of their surgery than at the time of the survey, but their regret and satisfaction ratings were not significantly different than those who had concordant identities.
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Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
The needed concordant scores, however, were to be raised this year, and many students have been unable to clear that bar.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
So mathematicians add a rule: Two knots are concordant if they can be connected by a certain kind of imaginary cylinder.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
This alternative title succinctly and intuitively confers the role of PAs, disambiguates them from assistant physicians, and is concordant with the AAPA’s professional definition.
—Peter A. Young, STAT, 2 June 2023
The genetic, fossil and archaeological records are reasonably concordant in suggesting that the first substantial and prolonged wave of modern human migration out of Africa occurred around 50,000 years ago.
—Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
But the biggest issue is this: identical twins already share very concordant genomes, and no one would presume that one twin should have a right to a say in the use of the genome of the other twin.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2011
The state wanted to raise the concordant scores to better match the challenge of achieving those to that of passing the state tests.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
In the United States children have traditionally been more often raised in the denomination of their mother than father, so there isn't always a male-bias in vertical transmission when the parents are not concordant for a cultural trait.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
The needed concordant scores, however, were to be raised this year, and many students have been unable to clear that bar.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
So mathematicians add a rule: Two knots are concordant if they can be connected by a certain kind of imaginary cylinder.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
This alternative title succinctly and intuitively confers the role of PAs, disambiguates them from assistant physicians, and is concordant with the AAPA’s professional definition.
—Peter A. Young, STAT, 2 June 2023
The genetic, fossil and archaeological records are reasonably concordant in suggesting that the first substantial and prolonged wave of modern human migration out of Africa occurred around 50,000 years ago.
—Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
But the biggest issue is this: identical twins already share very concordant genomes, and no one would presume that one twin should have a right to a say in the use of the genome of the other twin.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2011
The state wanted to raise the concordant scores to better match the challenge of achieving those to that of passing the state tests.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
In the United States children have traditionally been more often raised in the denomination of their mother than father, so there isn't always a male-bias in vertical transmission when the parents are not concordant for a cultural trait.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
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concordant
adjective
con·cor·dant
kən-ˈkȯrd-ᵊnt 
of twins
: similar with respect to one or more particular characters compare discordant
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