1
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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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
Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
That is roughly two-thirds of the county’s housing units designated for that purpose and could cause many people to become homeless again, warned Lisa Bates, the CEO of Sacramento Steps Forward, which coordinates federal homelessness funding for the area.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
And earlier this month, Crystal launched the Corporate Waste Management System Framework, which coordinates waste management across the company’s factories to maximize the re-use of waste materials.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2025
Peter Moreno leads the Prison Education Initiative, an effort housed at UW-Madison that coordinates programming across the UW campuses.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Operation Helping Hands, which began 16 years ago, also coordinates high school students to fill thousands of backpacks full of hygiene items each year to distribute to homeless people in several Southern California counties.
—Nicole Gregory, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Lizarraga manages and coordinates special projects that call for food, environmental and social justice in National City.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
While Bob struggles to charge the low-tech phone that’ll connect him with the French 75, Sensei coordinates skateboarders as messengers and directs his relatives and employees to evacuate the dozens of migrants his family is sheltering to a nearby church.
—Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Matt Daniels, who coordinates Room in the Inn, says that number includes two families who showed up for the first time the night before the program closed, on Wednesday.
—Taylor Batten, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Her department coordinates with Dayforce account management and product development teams to help shape their decisions.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Pahlawan also worked with Shahab and Yunus to prepare the vessel for multiple smuggling missions, obtained coordinates from them for ship-to-ship transfers and was paid for his role in the operation.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Mocha brown made no shortage of appearances on fall 2025 runways, in the form of suit coordinates from Fendi, pajama-style blouses from Prada, and more.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
To ensure compliance, their technology digs deeper than basic IP address recognition to monitor the exact place someone tries to place a wager, sifting through real-time data from sources such as GPS coordinates, cell phone towers, WiFi access points and Bluetooth beacons.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
After her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton in 2003, Angelina Jolie removed the tattoo of his name from her left arm, replacing it with the coordinates of her globe-spanning family's birthplaces.
—Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
The coordinates of Winni’s voyage marked a nearly straight east-to-west line.
—Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
By listing the numbers in all these vectors as one set of coordinates, Galashin was able to define a point in a high-dimensional space.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
Hegseth is set to give a major speech on the subject Friday and is said to be considering such radical changes as moving the department that coordinates with foreign militaries from the office of the undersecretary for policy to the office of the undersecretary for acquisitions.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
That is roughly two-thirds of the county’s housing units designated for that purpose and could cause many people to become homeless again, warned Lisa Bates, the CEO of Sacramento Steps Forward, which coordinates federal homelessness funding for the area.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
And earlier this month, Crystal launched the Corporate Waste Management System Framework, which coordinates waste management across the company’s factories to maximize the re-use of waste materials.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2025
Peter Moreno leads the Prison Education Initiative, an effort housed at UW-Madison that coordinates programming across the UW campuses.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Operation Helping Hands, which began 16 years ago, also coordinates high school students to fill thousands of backpacks full of hygiene items each year to distribute to homeless people in several Southern California counties.
—Nicole Gregory, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Lizarraga manages and coordinates special projects that call for food, environmental and social justice in National City.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
While Bob struggles to charge the low-tech phone that’ll connect him with the French 75, Sensei coordinates skateboarders as messengers and directs his relatives and employees to evacuate the dozens of migrants his family is sheltering to a nearby church.
—Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Matt Daniels, who coordinates Room in the Inn, says that number includes two families who showed up for the first time the night before the program closed, on Wednesday.
—Taylor Batten, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
This agent detects its environment, avoids collisions, and coordinates with nearby vehicles and traffic systems.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Her department coordinates with Dayforce account management and product development teams to help shape their decisions.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Pahlawan also worked with Shahab and Yunus to prepare the vessel for multiple smuggling missions, obtained coordinates from them for ship-to-ship transfers and was paid for his role in the operation.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Mocha brown made no shortage of appearances on fall 2025 runways, in the form of suit coordinates from Fendi, pajama-style blouses from Prada, and more.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
To ensure compliance, their technology digs deeper than basic IP address recognition to monitor the exact place someone tries to place a wager, sifting through real-time data from sources such as GPS coordinates, cell phone towers, WiFi access points and Bluetooth beacons.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
After her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton in 2003, Angelina Jolie removed the tattoo of his name from her left arm, replacing it with the coordinates of her globe-spanning family's birthplaces.
—Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
The coordinates of Winni’s voyage marked a nearly straight east-to-west line.
—Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
By listing the numbers in all these vectors as one set of coordinates, Galashin was able to define a point in a high-dimensional space.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coordinates
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Aligning fast joints with slow jets The paper’s central innovation is a multirate MPC design that reconciles the different response speeds of a humanoid’s joint actuators and jet engines.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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And not unlike that earlier film, this one takes its tale of debauchery and rectitude and reconciles everything with a fiery third act.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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The result is a Biggie Bag jingle that blends 80s hip-hop, disco and the KC native’s comedic appeal.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
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Today, Peru blends its rich past with an eye toward the future, aiming to preserve this cultural and natural wonderland for generations of adventurers to come.—
Ally Jaksen,
Outside,
4 Nov. 2025
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By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Ancient book clasps — used to keep manuscript tomes shut — were uncovered at the site, along with styli, the medieval equivalents of pens and pencils.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This new forecast corresponds to upside of around 11%.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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The o1 model correctly produced two different syntactic trees, one that corresponds to the first interpretation of the sentence and one that corresponds to the latter.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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The festival's institutional partners are Brown-Forman, the Owsley Brown II Family Foundation and the Owsley Brown II Philanthropic Foundation.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This also correlates with an increase in the number of Americans who hold a positive view of religion.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Justice represents the Sun in Libra, and the Two of Swords correlates to the Moon in Libra.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
20 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, their counterparts in Yuba County reported a stable overall output year-over-year, with the county’s $262 million agricultural value up about 2%.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Novelists—those modern counterparts to the epic poets—have something to teach all those constituencies.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Still, no small arm matches its raw stopping power within its effective range.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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Physical verification checks whether a chip layout meets the manufacturer’s strict rules and faithfully matches the original functional schematic.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Coordinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coordinates. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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