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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. 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
Adjective
  • The Beak and Barrel will be adjacent to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction in Adventureland and serve drinks and food to hungry swashbucklers and their crews.
    Megan duBois, Southern Living, 14 July 2025
  • Today, Murph is adjacent to contemporary country music, has collaborated with many of the genre’s contemporary hitmakers, and, like Morgan Wallen and Jelly Roll, is a white Southern artist singing music that borrows heavily from Black forms like R&B and sonic innovations like trap drums.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park was extended to include the adjoining Hin Nam No National Park in Laos.
    James Doubek, NPR, 18 July 2025
  • The architect’s eponymous firm has also designed an adjoining entertainment venue for the site.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • His fastball run value ranks in the 90th percentile, and his underlying numbers align closely with his actual results.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 July 2025
  • The underlying rationale behind the shift is the argument that centralized federal systems create moral hazards, stifle local innovation, and make states overly reliant on Washington.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • But details, including geographic parameters that could include contiguous parts of downtown, are expected to be worked out this summer, said Concepción, also a state legislator representing Hartford.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025
  • Winfrey has steadily expanded her holdings to nearly 70 contiguous acres with several high-profile purchases.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Politics are so digital at this point that the images saved on your phone are seen as coterminous with your personal beliefs.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
  • 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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“Conterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conterminous. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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