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

The grid, which supplies and coordinates wholesale power across 13 states and the District of Columbia, faces major challenges as demand, particularly from data centers, outstrips available supply. — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 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

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Cobalt blue denim coordinates were styled with a grass-green shoulder bag, while prange bell-bottoms were paired with a French blue button-down shirt. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 Getting answers requires hunting for clues scattered throughout the text; for example, looking for differences in images on the book’s website and illustrations in the book, or using certain page numbers as map coordinates. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026 By mapping this energy transfer, researchers aim to eventually place individual qubits at precise coordinates on demand. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026 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 Of those shoot days, about 10 percent of the film activity FilmLA coordinates is feature-based. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coordinates

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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

Verb

Then there are those who come for emotional healing like that of the newer Embracing Change Programme, a programme that blends talking therapy and deep meditation with a life enhancement mentor, with complementary treatments on the side.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Ospreay said the crux of Clockwork Carnage blends the Casino Gauntlet with an iron man match.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of blends

Noun

The analysis looked at 32 brand-name drugs sold through TrumpRx that lacked generic or biosimilar equivalents.

— Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of equivalents

Verb

That role corresponds to public service broadcasters which do have a brief to ensure educative children’s entertainment.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Differentiation corresponds to the branching of a valley, and the final destinations are the mature cell types of the body.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of corresponds

Noun

With production costs rising, broadcasters are also bringing partners together to finance new series and share the investment.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Fast forward four years, partners Daly Waters and Tamboran announced the first natural gas sales ever from the Beetaloo in September.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of partners

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Joshua Childs, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, said attendance correlates to whether a student is engaged in their academics and in their relationships with peers and teachers.

— Lina Ruiz October 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
The evidence is compelling that leadership effectiveness correlates with business performance.

— Bill Koch, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of correlates

Noun

Their counterparts in Neon kept their Palme d’Or streak alive with Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, a drama about religious Romanians clashing with Nordic liberalism.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Tucked away in the West Village, actor Julianne Moore doesn’t seem to live like her Hollywood counterparts.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of counterparts

Verb

But while the technical ambition is evident, the storytelling rarely matches it … even Chastain’s considerable talents can only do so much with material that doesn’t offer her character enough depth beyond her unsettling appearance.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
That matches their longest streak since Babe Ruth led baseball’s winningest franchise to its first World Series title in 1923.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026