COORDINATES Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of coordinate

as in reconciles

to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences coordinating the plans for the surprise party

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as in blends

to form a pleasing relationship a very meticulous wedding planner, who makes sure that every aspect of the reception—table settings, food, flowers, music, attire—coordinates right down to the last detail

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coordinates

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noun

plural of coordinate

as in equivalents

one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value the Nobel Memorial Award for Economic Science is universally regarded as the coordinate of the original Nobel Prizes for peace, literature, medicine, physics, and chemistry

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Recent Examples of coordinates

Verb

Chris Bamidele, a research associate who coordinates studies on colorectal cancer for ARGO, says many patients are reluctant to seek help. — Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Hybrid trials require an execution model that coordinates workflows across settings and applies protocol logic consistently. — Avik Pal, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The effort, which had major bipartisan support, was abandoned in favor of vote pairing, an informal arrangement where an absent lawmaker coordinates with an opposing lawmaker who agrees to abstain or withhold their vote. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 Here, Varghese coordinates their physical therapy, builds their braces, fabricates their prostheses, and operates on their limbs, should things come to that. — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026 The team used MedUSA, a manufacturing platform that coordinates three robotic arms. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026 The executive also coordinates and supervises county departments and is responsible for submitting an annual balanced budget to the Legislature. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026 The Coalition for Open Democracy coordinates voter registration and outreach efforts across New Hampshire and filed suit to block the Secretary of State’s Office from impacting the voting rights of students. — Zach Laird, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 Brightpoint, meanwhile, helps identify local families in crisis, and a team of volunteers coordinates the work of connecting needs to helpers. — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Noun

After having received coordinates for a survivor, White altered their course to look for Parker and prepared supplies to keep him warm. — Steven Romo, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026 After recording his coordinates and dropping a glass bottle in the water to mark the spot, Lang called his longtime friend and dock neighbor, Yohei Yamada. — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026 Users submit coordinates of rat sightings (dead or alive), alongside a short report on the setting. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2026 Particle movement depends on several moving parts at once, including energy levels, speed, spatial coordinates, and angles of travel. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026 However, the agency did provide GPS coordinates, which matched federal pipeline maps to identify it as Enbridge’s Lakehead System Line 5. — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Google says this will display the location's coordinates on both Android and iPhone. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Tai’s platform coordinates shipment lifecycle across truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL), drayage as well as cross-border operations. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026 The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) stated in its file that the last message Kovrizhynkh sent to her mother on July 5 contained a photograph of a letter along with GPS coordinates in Potrero. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

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Ted shares an emotional reunion with Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), reconciles with Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) and gets ready to work again with Higgins (Jeremy Swift), Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and Keeley (Juno Temple).

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026
So is a sales, inventory, and operations planning cadence that continuously reconciles demand, inventory, capacity, and constraints across tiers.

— Jean-Louis Rassineux, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of reconciles

Noun

So cleaners to play cleaners, academics to play scientists, even criminals and former KGB agents to play their Soviet equivalents.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Down the line, the cofounders will eventually add in affiliate links from programs like ShopMy and other equivalents.

— Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of equivalents

Noun

From concept development to flight qualification The US company and its partners have already passed several development milestones since the program started.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
Kyrylo Budanov, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, said representatives of Ukraine’s European partners, from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, were also in Kyiv.

— Samya Kullab, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of partners

Verb

The reduction correlates to the elimination of FDA support staff roles, or personnel who booked travel and carried out food testing for contamination, creating an administrative slowdown to efficiently carry out key safety and inspection protocol.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
According to the company, SignalTrace detects and correlates electronic signals that devices publicly broadcast.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of correlates

Noun

This is where these cars actually outshine their Western counterparts.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
As a result, unlike their civilian counterparts, some troops can see their paychecks change many times a year, depending on many factors — something that also increases the likelihood of errors.

— Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of counterparts

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Astroscale’s business is focused on satellite servicing and mitigation of space junk, a segment of the market that matches well with rockets the size of Isar’s Spectrum for dedicated rides to orbit.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Even its rugged titanium shell is unchanged from the Ultra 3, and Samsung's $700 Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 matches its dive and endurance credentials.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026