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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
South Dakota's Todd County is coextensive with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation
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as in concurrent
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the golden age of Dutch culture was roughly coextensive with the Netherlands' reign as a world power
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Recent Examples of coextensive
Beyond this subset of works, the chipmunk paintings are also coextensive with the entire body and thrust of her production.
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Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Being online was not coextensive with being alive.
—Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Being online was not coextensive with being alive.
—Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coextensive
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Njuguna received a sentence of 5 to 7 years in state prison for the involuntary manslaughter conviction, with lesser concurrent sentences on the remaining convictions.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
6 May 2025
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Alternative listing strategies—such as concurrent private placements or dual-track processes—may become more prevalent.—
Joseph Lucosky,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2024
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Another suggestion is that there were two more or less coincident eruptions, one each in northern and southern hemispheres.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2011
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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
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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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The key lies in a fast oscillating sheet known as a diffuser, onto which synchronous images are projected at high speed (2,880 images per second) and at different heights; human persistence of vision ensures that these images are perceived as true 3D objects.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2025
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Students engage in 3–4 hours of daily synchronous classes, including discussions of classic and contemporary texts, writing workshops to hone analytical essays, and adaptive STEM programs like Beast Academy.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Otherwise, companies will only be able to get their routine COVID-19 vaccine updates approved for seniors as well as people with an underlying medical condition, like pregnancy or diabetes, that increases the risk of severe disease.—
Paula Cohen,
CBS News,
20 May 2025
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One problem in this domain still persists: many platforms remain low-code as the underlying modeling layer still requires professionals to write/design a model, often using Domain Specific Languages (DSLs).—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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These things could be coincidental, or could, as the main character suggests, be the work of fairies upset that their pools were desecrated in this way.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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Then, this winter, the pair became coincidental training partners, occasionally working out at the same Southern California facility together as Kim (who, like Ohtani, is represented by Creative Artists Agency) prepared for his own move to the major leagues.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2025
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While colonial administrators imagined the West to be home to progress, order, and economic development, all of which were imagined as coterminous with whiteness, the East was imagined as its opposite.—
Zachariah Mampilly,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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The nation’s period of domestic bliss was practically coterminous with the presidency of James Monroe, a Democratic-Republican whose landslide victory in 1816 accelerated the Federalist Party’s collapse.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Dec. 2024
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“Coextensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coextensive. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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