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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
The temperature outlook predicts enhanced probabilities of above normal temperatures over much of the western conterminous U.S.
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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.
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Paul Richards,
Field & Stream,
18 Apr. 2023
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
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Neel Mukherjee,
New York Times,
22 Nov. 2022
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
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Patrick D. Nunn,
Discover Magazine,
23 Oct. 2018
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
The temperature outlook predicts enhanced probabilities of above normal temperatures over much of the western conterminous U.S.
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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.
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Paul Richards,
Field & Stream,
18 Apr. 2023
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
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Neel Mukherjee,
New York Times,
22 Nov. 2022
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
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Patrick D. Nunn,
Discover Magazine,
23 Oct. 2018
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In 1918, a neighboring property sale recorded inaccurate boundaries that improperly absorbed the cemetery into an adjacent parcel — the first of decades of land transfers that gradually left the burial ground isolated and inaccessible.
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Netflix has also moved aggressively into entertainment-adjacent sectors, such as videogames and live experiences.
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Accelerating human evolution coincident with the development of agriculture increased redheadedness and decreased male-pattern baldness.
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In a separate announcement, but with coincident timing, WestJet also announced a stopover plan in Calgary.
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The fallen tree struck three neighboring homes, including the house next door, where the tree crashed through the kitchen.
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California is still the biggest spender overall, and even the neighboring New York state dwarfs New Jersey today — but change is in the Jersey Shore salt water air.
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Without rigorous normalization governance, inconsistencies in how the same underlying reality is represented across feeds produce systematic noise that no model can fully overcome.
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Beyond just being a nuisance, phorid flies can also be an indicator of more serious underlying issues in your home.
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Solea has an entirely different main deck from the other two Zeelander 8s, with a large salon and adjoining galley designed for entertaining.
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In an adjoining installation, nude collaborators floated inside a dunk tank flanked by port-a-potties; visitors were encouraged to use (the urine was filtered into the tank).
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There were four short docs released under the SNL50 banner, plus Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music and Brent Hodge’s Downey Wrote That, all on Peacock and boasting myriad overlapping talking heads, filming locations and generally celebratory approaches to the beloved sketch show.
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In the past couple years, AI has permeated the music industry in several overlapping but distinct ways.
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This would create partition on the patriots’ terms, not Britain’s, as 13 contiguous colonies seceded from the rump of the British Empire in North America.
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The park is almost completely surrounded by Bureau of Land Management property, and the public land is all that separates the park from the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness — the largest wilderness area in the contiguous United States.
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Politics are so digital at this point that the images saved on your phone are seen as coterminous with your personal beliefs.
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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.
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“Conterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conterminous. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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