as in to coincide
to be in agreement on every point
the Union and the Confederate accounts of the battle don't dovetail at all
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Recent Examples of dovetail
Rhetoric from the Trump administration about drawing down the U.S. presence in Europe dovetails with increasing concerns about the threat that Moscow poses the continent after the end of the Ukraine war.
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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
The trip dovetails with a raft of investments involving the Trump Organization.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
The new product will dovetails with a recent paywall put in place at CNN.com that gives those who subscribe to it access to ad-free news and certain extra pieces of content.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 May 2025
The business-as-usual approach dovetails with a year of acts from Brand New to Ryan Adams looking to put a wide range of allegations of misconduct in the rearview mirror by giving diehards a show of talent to talk about instead and little else.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 May 2025
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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
The trip dovetails with a raft of investments involving the Trump Organization.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
The new product will dovetails with a recent paywall put in place at CNN.com that gives those who subscribe to it access to ad-free news and certain extra pieces of content.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 May 2025
The business-as-usual approach dovetails with a year of acts from Brand New to Ryan Adams looking to put a wide range of allegations of misconduct in the rearview mirror by giving diehards a show of talent to talk about instead and little else.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dovetail
Verb
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Fit and fabric ensured comfort and style, coinciding with the brand’s attention to detail.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Miami-Dade County officials assure that the project remains on schedule for a 2027 reopening, coinciding with the theater’s centennial.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
7 June 2025
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The photograph corresponds, complements, or even dissolves the sculptural object’s manual and artisanal production procedures, functioning not as document but as its dialectical technological counterpart.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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By contrast, the total income in their domestic league in 2022 was just €16m (note that Sheriff’s European income was split across their 2021 and 2022 financial years, so doesn’t correspond to the single-season income from UEFA).—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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In Feeding Ghosts, the disconnect between Sun Yi’s training and instincts as a journalist, and the requirements of the increasingly totalitarian Communist regime to make reality conform to their narrative, literally drove her insane.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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In ruling in favor of Harris, Contreras said the statutory protections for board members from being removed without cause conform with the Constitution in light of a 1935 Supreme Court precedent in a case called Humphrey's Executor v. United States.—
John Kruzel,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Reich imagines a world in which Dropout licenses a big sitcom — say Parks and Recreation — that could both bring subscribers and fit in with the platform’s sensibility.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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How Drones Are Changing Modern Warfare On October 2, 2016, a drone fitted with explosives by the Islamic State group hit a position outside Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil, killing two Kurdish Peshmerga troops and injuring two accompanying French special forces.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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“Dovetail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dovetail. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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