as in concurrent
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the Spanish founding of San Francisco and the British colonies' declaration of independence from the mother country were coetaneous events that occurred on opposite ends of the continent
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Adjective
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Each Grand Jury Prize winner will receive $2,500; winners may also qualify to enter their respective Short Film category of the Academy Awards® for the concurrent season without the theatrical run.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
15 Apr. 2026 -
The need-to-know this morning Revolution Medicines raised $2 billion in concurrent stock and debt offerings.—
Elaine Chen,
STAT,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Colleen Barry,
Fortune,
24 Nov. 2022
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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.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2021
Adjective
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Well, the name of my production studio is Synchronous Pictures, and synchronous means something can be multiple things at the same time.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Earth is locked in a synchronous dance with the moon, so the same lunar hemisphere always faces away from us.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Regional banks bounced a bit, still down a couple percent on the week, as Thursday’s flush lower amid a few separate but coincident credit hiccups exacerbated underlying unease with the opaque and possibly lax lending across private credit and among smaller commercial banks.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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The coincident new Moon contributes no light pollution, making 2025 ideal for Orionid viewing.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The parallels are coincidental.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, with the country living in terror under Homelander’s reign, Kripke previously noted that the real-world political parallels in Season 5 are coincidental, as the concluding episodes were written before the 2024 election.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Instead, according to several people involved and to contemporaneous documents, OpenAI executives seemed to grow only more excited about it.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The movies weren’t subtitled, and sometimes a screening included a live narrator doing simultaneous translation into Romanian.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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In the wake of the simultaneous excitement over the ARTEMIS II mission, NPR went to NASA and other experts to find out about the real science behind many of the film's plot points.—
Tara Haelle,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2026
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LaFave told me that some of the guys like to have herbal tea in the evenings and discuss issues such as the problems with contemporary masculinity.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Fiapoto is one of the Bay Area’s most prominent contemporary rapper, whose moniker is a reference to his gang, according to police.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Coetaneous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coetaneous. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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