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as in adjacent
having a border in common
for two nations that are conterminous from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the U.S. and Canada have had remarkably little strife
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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
the county and the school district are conterminous
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Recent Examples of conterminous
While there is no suggestion that deposit insurance might be abolished, the FDIC has become so conterminous with the concept that (unfounded) worries were quickly raised on social media about the safety of money in banks.
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Felix Salmon, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
According to the weather service, increased chances for above-normal temperatures are predicted across much of the central and eastern conterminous United States.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 1 Feb. 2024
The temperature outlook predicts enhanced probabilities of above normal temperatures over much of the western conterminous U.S.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 1 Feb. 2024
In 1999, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the species as threatened throughout the conterminous United States under the Endangered Species List.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
—Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
Felix Salmon, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
According to the weather service, increased chances for above-normal temperatures are predicted across much of the central and eastern conterminous United States.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 1 Feb. 2024
The temperature outlook predicts enhanced probabilities of above normal temperatures over much of the western conterminous U.S.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 1 Feb. 2024
In 1999, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the species as threatened throughout the conterminous United States under the Endangered Species List.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
—Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conterminous
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This modern mode of transportation would usher in a golden age of motoring, and John Oosterhuis, an immigrant from the Netherlands, planned to take advantage by building the Dutch Mill Motel in 1951 adjacent to the new highway.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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The flatland at the southern end is adjacent to the Lón Lagoon, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a beautiful black sand beach.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
20 June 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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Its bombs—dropped in the middle of working hours—severely damaged the adjoining Shahid Moghaddas judicial complex, where prisoners are dragged before malevolent magistrates and fed into the machinery of the Revolutionary Court.—
Siamak Namazi,
Time,
25 June 2025
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Nieman and Johnson will accommodate vendor booths, food trucks and the adjoining beer festival.—
Taylor O’Connor,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2025
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Meissner disagreed with Levi, warning that 80% of children hospitalized with RSV are healthy with no underlying conditions.—
Nicole Brown Chau,
CBS News,
26 June 2025
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Yet, while nuclear is back in the political spotlight, the underlying issue goes deeper: energy systems are under pressure, and existing planning, operational, and market structures are struggling to keep pace.—
Elena Bou,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The Japan Coast Guard said four Chinese Coast Guard ships were spotted near the Senkaku Islands on Sunday, sailing within the islands' contiguous zone—a maritime area that extends up to 27.6 miles from the coastline and lies beyond its 13.8-mile-wide territorial waters.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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According to statistics from the Japanese Defense Ministry, more than 100 Chinese vessels have appeared in the contiguous zone of the islands – the waters between them – for all but one of the past 24 months.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
16 June 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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“Conterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conterminous. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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