as in similar
having qualities in common
solving a crime and diagnosing a disease are corresponding tasks: they both require a meticulous search for clues
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as in writing
to engage in an exchange of written messages
old friends who have been corresponding for years
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as in coinciding
to be in agreement on every point
the menu for the wedding banquet corresponds exactly with everyone's special requests
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Recent Examples of corresponding
David Ingram, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
DanDriedger/SimplyCreativePhotography/Getty Images Borrowers hoping for a drop in inflation and a corresponding interest rate cut woke up to disappointing news Friday morning when the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a surge in the rate.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
The Phillies, in a corresponding move, called up chief vibes officer Garrett Stubbs from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to split time behind the plate with Rafael Marchán while Realmuto is out.
—Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Luna asks what the customer is purchasing and creates a corresponding transaction on a nearby iPad.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
DanDriedger/SimplyCreativePhotography/Getty Images Borrowers hoping for a drop in inflation and a corresponding interest rate cut woke up to disappointing news Friday morning when the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a surge in the rate.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
The past day has seen the sun unleash a series of powerful solar flares, including two X-class flares and corresponding eruptions from a sunspot region located on the western limb that caused radio blackouts on Earth, while casting masses of plasma into space known as coronal mass ejections.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
The Phillies, in a corresponding move, called up chief vibes officer Garrett Stubbs from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to split time behind the plate with Rafael Marchán while Realmuto is out.
—Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corresponding
Adjective
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Many of the precautions a traveler could take are similar to those that became familiar at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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Nationally, campuses including Harvard, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania reported similar outages.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
Verb
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Feerick was summoned to Washington to start writing what would become the Twenty-fifth.—
Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Codex, OpenAI’s AI coding agent for software engineering tasks like writing code and fixing bugs, was released in 2025.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
3 May 2026
Verb
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With a book and TV adaptation release coinciding (two of the author's other novels, This Summer Will Be Different and Meet Me at the Lake, are also in development), Fortune has a whirlwind few months ahead.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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No coincidence that the Dodgers’ struggles are coinciding with a four-game hitless streak for Shohei Ohtani, his first such drought since 2022.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 May 2026
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An analogous argument, albeit in the context of children and teenagers, was recently brought against Meta and other social media companies.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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What’s going on there is analogous to what the oil business did in Houston and Dallas.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
Verb
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At that time, the owners, and the development team committed to file a conforming site plan application within one year of the approval, which deadline the Zoning Board extended in March 2025 to November 5, 2025.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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Instead of imitating other instruments and conforming to conventional musical ideas, Buchla (and Ciani) set out to create a paradigm based on harnessing the flow of electricity itself.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Teamsters Local 727, which represents animal care specialists, groundskeepers, patrol officers, seasonals, aides, and custodians, said the zoo's latest contract offer would take away their current health care plans without providing a comparable alternative.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
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The idea is to deal with a heavily armored or deeply buried target by dropping a bomb that is hard enough and heavy enough to plunge through yards of earth and stone to deliver a staggering blast comparable to a seismic event.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 May 2026
Verb
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Women’s health is often thought of as consisting solely of reproductive health issues.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Roman soldiers guarding the fortlet enjoyed views of open pastures and cleared woodland consisting mainly of alder, hazel, and willow, with smaller amounts of oak and birch.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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His only regret from this first term is agreeing to use $5 million of American Rescue Plan Act money to renovate the Memorial Opera House.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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While agreeing that the FPV drones were a new challenge, Zehavi cautioned against overstating their impact.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Corresponding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corresponding. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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