as in compatible
not having or showing any apparent conflict
the clothes you wear to work must be consistent with the company's dress code
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Recent Examples of consistent
This stability highlights the challenge of declining harvest numbers despite consistent participation.
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Draw the knife across the stone at a consistent angle, starting with the wide edge and ending at the tip.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
Gisele vacationed in the area not too long ago, and kitesurfers speak of the Lençóis, which has consistent offshore breezes, as an untrammeled Shangri-La.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Capital expenditures for the quarter totaled $1.2 billion, consistent with the previous year's quarter, with significant investments in underground development and new smelter facilities in Indonesia.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Draw the knife across the stone at a consistent angle, starting with the wide edge and ending at the tip.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
Gisele vacationed in the area not too long ago, and kitesurfers speak of the Lençóis, which has consistent offshore breezes, as an untrammeled Shangri-La.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Capital expenditures for the quarter totaled $1.2 billion, consistent with the previous year's quarter, with significant investments in underground development and new smelter facilities in Indonesia.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consistent
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Well, Garmin devices aren’t compatible with Peloton bikes because the two companies haven’t struck a direct deal with one another for data sharing.Victoria Song, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
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The processing requirements by the device seems to be why older devices aren’t compatible.Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2024
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China remains a far cry from having the sort of labor unions and collective bargaining that are taken for granted elsewhere, but, as Steinfeld correctly argues, Chinese labor practices are moving away from their revolutionary roots and are increasingly consonant with Western standards.Simon Tay, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2010
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Where the republic’s hypocrisy fed its fatal weakness, corruption, the Taliban’s unabashed brutality was consonant with the movement’s strength, its unity.Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
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What Wyler is frowning about, past this threat to her own ambition — that’s less coherent.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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LLMs that can process large amounts of tokens at once—called a context window—are prized because they are believed to produce more coherent and relevant responses.Clint Boulton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Consistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consistent. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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