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con·cur·ren·cy | \ kən-ˈkər-ən(t)-sē 
, -ˈkə-rən(t)-, kän- \
, -ˈkə-rən(t)-, kän- \Definition of concurrency
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Examples of concurrency in a Sentence
the concurrency of several life-threatening emergencies made for a busy night at the trauma center
there is general concurrency that the rule concerning the writing of thank-you notes still pertains
Recent Examples on the Web Tina Landau — who directed the show on Broadway, on tour and on-screen with seasoned awards show helmer Glenn Weiss — is OK with the concurrency, as long as the show is being seen in some way.
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Tribune News Service, oregonlive, "‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ musical heads to TV as part of show’s 20th anniversary celebration," 3 Dec. 2019 Under a manufacturing concept known as concurrency, F-35 production began before the jet’s hardware and software was completed.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The F-35 Is Cheap To Buy (But Not To Fly)," 30 Oct. 2019 This remarkable concurrency isn’t the only remarkable thing happening here.
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Quanta Magazine, "How Geometry, Data and Neighbors Predict Your Favorite Movies," 22 May 2019 Under the concurrency concept, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin started building the jets before the development process was finished.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Some F-35s Could Become Unflyable by 2026," 1 Feb. 2019 If not for the concurrency strategy, the production line wouldn’t start until 2019 at the earliest.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Pentagon Agrees to Fix the F-35's Many Problems Before Full Production," 6 June 2018 To speed things along, the Pentagon adopted a procurement process known as concurrency, in which airplanes would be built before the design was finalized.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Pentagon Agrees to Fix the F-35's Many Problems Before Full Production," 6 June 2018 The most valuable lesson learned from the F-35, however, may be to never, ever use concurrency to drive a major weapons program ever again.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Barely Half of the F-35 Fleet Is Flight-Ready," 5 Mar. 2018 The very low availability rate of early F-35s calls into question the wisdom of the concurrency scheme to begin with.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Barely Half of the F-35 Fleet Is Flight-Ready," 5 Mar. 2018
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The first known use of concurrency was in 1597
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