as in to accompany
to occur or exist at the same time the subtitles must synchronize with the movie's spoken dialogue

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Recent Examples of synchronize The movements are synchronized, the smiles are wide, and the energy is infectious. Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025 Advertisement Years ago, our lab showed in brain scans that listening to the same piece of music caused people's brain waves to synchronize. Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025 Rather than costly reshoots or disruptive dubbing, VisualDub seamlessly synchronized new audio with existing footage. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025 His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body movements to music was believed to be a uniquely human activity. Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for synchronize
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  • The economy has so far largely avoided the type of widespread job losses that often accompany a recession.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Truwitt was accompanied by her best friend, fellow former Yale swimmer Sophie Pilkinton, who had her own big win to celebrate after finishing medical school.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Zdon and his talented group of classmates, which includes nine third-year starters, have been instrumental in helping reverse Grant’s fortunes, with their arrival coinciding with Norwood becoming coach.
    Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The totals included two new records, coinciding with a subsiding Middle Tennessee heat wave.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
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  • Gardin showed us a country where the medieval and the modern, the down-and-out and la dolce vita, seemed to coexist.
    Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The understanding that all knowledge is created through cultural processes does allow for two or more differing truths to coexist.
    Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Synchronize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchronize. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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