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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 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 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 Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States. Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conterminous
Adjective
  • The affected building is adjacent to UC's campus.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The King Salman Gate in Mecca will cover 12 million square meters including prayer areas, residential units, hotels, and shops adjacent to the Grand Mosque as part of plans to expand religious tourism.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Tata currently operates two plants in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one in neighboring Karnataka, which was formerly owned by Wistron.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In neighboring Arizona, officials have reported 63 cases so far this year.
    Maria Godoy, NPR, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The coincident new Moon contributes no light pollution, making 2025 ideal for Orionid viewing.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The space is meant to simulate high-traffic areas in real life, such as the three-way intersection between the school and the adjoining Roll Hill neighborhood, which can get busy during pickup and drop-off.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The lower floor, which had two adjoining living rooms, seemed like a basic corporate condo, right down to the decorations (or lack of them).
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Goldman Sachs analysts indicated that at least so far, the rise in stock prices has been accompanied by solid underlying growth.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Aaron Scott, a partner at Dechert in London, noted that CLOs issued since 2013 benefit from improved structural protections put in place in the years following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis — such as lower leverage, stricter ratings criteria and tougher tests on the underlying loan collateral.
    Hugh Leask, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And a recent estimate from the Palestinian Ministry of Health – which is based in Ramallah, in the West Bank, a separate, non-contiguous Palestinian enclave – concluded that at least 30% of Palestinians killed over the last two years in Gaza have been under 18.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Just, last month, 114 contiguous miles were reopened on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 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 20 Oct. 2025.

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