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as in concurrent
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne partnership was more or less coterminous with Broadway's golden age
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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
Massachusetts' Nantucket County isn't quite coterminous with the island of the same name, as the county includes two small nearby islets
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Recent Examples of coterminous
Politics are so digital at this point that the images saved on your phone are seen as coterminous with your personal beliefs.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
While colonial administrators imagined the West to be home to progress, order, and economic development, all of which were imagined as coterminous with whiteness, the East was imagined as its opposite.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
The nation’s period of domestic bliss was practically coterminous with the presidency of James Monroe, a Democratic-Republican whose landslide victory in 1816 accelerated the Federalist Party’s collapse.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
From the moment of her father’s death and her subsequent coronation—receiving the Crown of St. Edward on her head, and bearing its almost five pounds of weight upright for the next three hours—the vast dimensions of her status as queen were coterminous with the diminutive dimensions of her person.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
They are not always codified in or coterminous with international law.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Clearly, then, the gambit is designed to have, coterminous with Trump’s criminal prosecution by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, a parallel probe of the Bidens.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
While colonial administrators imagined the West to be home to progress, order, and economic development, all of which were imagined as coterminous with whiteness, the East was imagined as its opposite.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
The nation’s period of domestic bliss was practically coterminous with the presidency of James Monroe, a Democratic-Republican whose landslide victory in 1816 accelerated the Federalist Party’s collapse.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
From the moment of her father’s death and her subsequent coronation—receiving the Crown of St. Edward on her head, and bearing its almost five pounds of weight upright for the next three hours—the vast dimensions of her status as queen were coterminous with the diminutive dimensions of her person.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
They are not always codified in or coterminous with international law.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Clearly, then, the gambit is designed to have, coterminous with Trump’s criminal prosecution by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, a parallel probe of the Bidens.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coterminous
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Twitch streams of people playing Rematch surpassed 40,000 concurrent viewers Monday night with the help of popular European content creator eliasn97, who accounted for three-quarters of those spectators.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
8 July 2025
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He’s expected to receive a concurrent state prison sentence for violating the terms of that program.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
24 June 2025
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With a lockable synchronic-tilt mechanism and special Z-Shape design, the Kaiser 2 can accommodate a weight up to 180kg, quite a bit more than normal mechanisms on office chairs and the back can be reclined to an angle of 160 degrees which can be locked when not in rocking mode.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2021
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For his last runway collection, unveiled in September, Michele constructed a parallel universe of side-by-side shows separated by a wall that when lifted revealed twins in identical looks in synchronic stride.—
Colleen Barry,
Fortune,
24 Nov. 2022
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2024
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Another suggestion is that there were two more or less coincident eruptions, one each in northern and southern hemispheres.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2011
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That’s highly synchronous, resulting in many, many animals making that migration simultaneously.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The sheer number of DNA shifts that must have occurred in rapid succession to create this synchronous outcome also reflects the strong pressure horses were likely under to become fast and tireless.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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His fastball run value ranks in the 90th percentile, and his underlying numbers align closely with his actual results.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
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The underlying rationale behind the shift is the argument that centralized federal systems create moral hazards, stifle local innovation, and make states overly reliant on Washington.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The choice of name was coincidental but Lee and Kirby were anxious to avoid any connection to radical politics.—
Ekow Eshun
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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This incident came during an ugly coincidental 72-hour period involving a trio of former Cowboys players.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Beyond this subset of works, the chipmunk paintings are also coextensive with the entire body and thrust of her production.—
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2024
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The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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While there is no suggestion that deposit insurance might be abolished, the FDIC has become so conterminous with the concept that (unfounded) worries were quickly raised on social media about the safety of money in banks.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
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According to the weather service, increased chances for above-normal temperatures are predicted across much of the central and eastern conterminous United States.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
1 Feb. 2024
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“Coterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coterminous. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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