coordinates 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of coordinate

coordinates

2 of 2

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
Buses are equipped with Transit Signal Priority technology, which coordinates with traffic signals to allow more efficient movement through intersections. — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 Greeks have long adored New Balance for their timeless look that coordinates easily with anything from dresses and shorts to jeans. — Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026 An enterprise assistant sits on top of your platforms and coordinates them. — Amirtha Saminathan, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Anadolu Efes provides access to its agricultural network and coordinates the partnership with UNDP, MILKist, the cooperatives and participating designers. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026 While the technical crew records the president, the producer or reporter coordinates the live feed by phone, taking notes and asking questions. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 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
Noun
Because the malware reads those touch coordinates at a low level, protections that normally hide PIN digits from screen readers do not stop this technique. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 As recent writing on dance and cognition suggests, choreography is not simply a map of moving coordinates. — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 The narrator of The Radiance, also named Ayad Akhtar, is a Pakistani American playwright and novelist who has ostensibly written the books Akhtar has written and shares many of the same biographical coordinates. — Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026 However, its coordinates agree surprisingly well with a contemporaneous description by Ptolemy of a settlement called Claudivium. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The coordinates of a vector in Hilbert space include information that corresponds to this alignment of peaks and troughs, called a wave’s phase. — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026 Of those shoot days, about 10 percent of the film activity FilmLA coordinates is feature-based. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026 Zhang posted a suspicion in the team’s chat that the choice of coordinates was to blame. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026 What to read next Mapmakers are still chipping away at these challenges, although the International Astronomical Union has operated a working group dedicated to cartographic coordinates since 1979. — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coordinates
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The seat, which blends portions of Calvert‘s and Kim’s current districts, reaches from Mission Viejo in Orange County into Woodcrest, Menifee and Murrieta in Riverside County.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Building curriculum in partnership with employers that blends technical training with the workplace habits and human competencies that define on-the-job success is part of what makes these pathways work.
    — Philip Weinberg, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Dune reports that the total supply of tokenized real-world assets has exceeded $34 billion in 2026, and major categories—including cash equivalents and commodities—have more than doubled over the past year.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The Pro editions of the software updater and password manager don’t do much beyond their free equivalents.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The flight number corresponds to a flight that typically travels from Dubai to Muscat.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This corresponds with an important point in the evolution of the universe called the Epoch of Reionization.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Islamic Scholarship Fund, New York production and post house Lost in Space, and Aneesa Talks, which filmmaker Aneesa Khan founded to support South Asian and Muslim creatives, have also signed on as partners.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Toyota plans to provide research access through the University of Michigan Electric Vehicle Center, allowing other research partners to use its battery testing and evaluation capabilities.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The evidence is compelling that leadership effectiveness correlates with business performance.
    — Bill Koch, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • This correlates with a spike in measles cases recorded in August, according to health department data.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Florida public school teachers are the second-worst paid in the nation, pulling only slightly more than their counterparts in Mississippi, according to the National Education Association.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The 64-year-old suggests she was held to a different standard than her male counterparts.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Anderson matches his subject’s reticence with a similarly spartan approach.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Hichilema’s stance matches that of regional rivals who are trying to use the scramble for critical minerals to drive economic development.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Coordinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coordinates. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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