Definition of concordantnext

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Recent Examples of concordant The women’s voices rose, gentle and emotive in unison, before splitting into two concordant melodies. Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026 One of those studies was an on-site evaluation by Shoppers Drug Mart (Canada's largest retail pharmacy chain), which found concordant results between Truvian and a central laboratory. John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025 Finding a common language is just one way in which medical schools, clinics, hospitals and health-care networks are working to address health disparities as part of an increasingly visible movement known as culturally sensitive or concordant care. Rod McCullom, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concordant
Adjective
  • The overall trend is also consistent with other research showing that hypertension during pregnancy has become increasingly common.
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Since January, every Mental Health Board meeting has been canceled due to a lack of a quorum caused by the member’s consistent failure to attend.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The first term may make the second plausible, compatible or even probable, but plausibility is not identity, compatibility is not implication, probability is not necessity, and similarity of appearance is not proof of sameness of nature.
    Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • From tracker-compatible passport holders to lightning-fast portable chargers, below are 10 personal safety upgrades worth shopping before your next trip—all available on Amazon, with prices starting at $6.
    Annita Katee, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The film’s treatment of Odysseus’s lies, too, seems consonant with the Ten Commandments instead of Homer’s moral worldview.
    Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026
  • But recent research found that members of the Tsimane’, a native Amazonian society in Bolivia, rate consonant and dissonant chords as equally pleasurable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026

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“Concordant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concordant. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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