COORDINATES Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

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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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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

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Terrorism is a real concern – either through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, which coordinates Iran’s unconventional warfare, or through its partnership with Hezbollah in Lebanon. —

Javed Ali, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026 Terrorism is a real concern – either through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, which coordinates Iran’s unconventional warfare, or through its partnership with Hezbollah in Lebanon. —

Javed Ali, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2026 The club organizes group outings, coordinates pre-movie meetups and creates structured space for conversation afterward, turning what is often a solitary activity into a social routine. —

Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026 This includes state-level organizations like CSAR, which coordinates resources across the 50 or so SAR teams in Colorado. —

Jayme Moye, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026 The clinical social worker coordinates placement with community resources and the classification and parole representative. —

Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado updated February 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026 Outside, technology coordinates school sports, helps bus drivers find the right route and maintains students’ health records. —

Adam Echelman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026 The alliance is the group that coordinates HUD homelessness funding in suburban Cook County. —

Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026 The diplomat testified alongside Austin Holmes, a Florida resident and security firm owner who coordinates humanitarian and security assistance in the Caribbean country. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026

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Instead of scrolling through dozens of forum posts trying to piece together conflicting information, these databases organize locations by production, giving you coordinates and context in one place. —

Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026 There has been widespread GNSS spoofing and AIS manipulation, where tankers are digitally hijacked and tricked into displaying false coordinates that lead them into restricted territorial waters for seizure. —

Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 According to WaPo‘s sources, the system spits out precise location coordinates for missile strikes and prioritizes them by importance. —

Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026 While suffering from frostbite and unable to move, the skier emergency distress call was detected by satellites and flagged to local authorities, who dispatched a rescue team to the skier's coordinates. —

Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026 Labrum presented a global outlook with block-print denim suits and dark wash denim coordinates embellished with oversized brooches and unconventional hardware. —

Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Mar. 2026 ContextIA is capable of answering specific queries with direct quotes and page references; extracting particular data such as phone numbers, license plates and coordinates; and, as its name suggests, cross-referencing cases in the context of different databases. —

Karen Esquivel, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026 Officials also required Google to remove coordinates from South Korean territory and blur satellite and aerial images of military and other sensitive sites in time-series services such as Google Earth and Street View. —

ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026 The Homeland Security report says some readers are capturing license plate numbers, as well as the make and model of the vehicle, the state the vehicle is registered in, the camera owner and type, the GPS coordinates for where the image was taken, and the date and time of the capture. —

Calmatters, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026

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There’s no ending for Heathcliff that reconciles him to the cruelty shown to him by Hindley Earnshaw, who hates him from the moment that his father brings him home.

— Radhika Jones, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
By reframing effectiveness through the dual lens of character and context integrity, this approach offers a more realistic theory of leadership—one that reconciles the bright and dark sides and emphasizes the moral compass leaders need to advance the common good.

— Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026