as in coincided
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 dovetailed
Their efforts have dovetailed with the Kings’ best defensive pairing this season, Brandt Clarke and Joel Edmundson, to keep the club afloat.
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Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
The pair initially dovetailed up front after a Jesus injury in the 2023-24 season, and contributed to 6-0, 5-0 and 6-0 wins over West Ham, Burnley and Sheffield United.
—Art De Roché, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
This year’s nostalgia for Jane Austen interiors (which has also dovetailed with the return of the canopy bed and is not unrelated to the resurgence of perpetual girlhood) has put candlelit lighting back on the map, and retailers are meeting the moment with modern iterations of the antique.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2025
That dovetailed nicely with the offerings, including Giovanni Ferraris’s Titanium collection.
—James Manso, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Johnson says the concussion affected his ability to concentrate and even altered his personality that year, which dovetailed with the release of his 2010 double album, The Guitar Song.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
The move dovetailed with its goal to generate 30% of its annual revenues from content produced in other languages aside from Spanish.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Her producer’s encouragement dovetailed with the music and journal entries MŌRIAH had been quietly creating backstage while touring churches across the country.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
He was focused on Srinivasan and his role as the promulgator of the Network State ideology, which dovetailed with other right-wing libertarian tech movements that sought to claim land and political sovereignty for tech elites.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
The pair initially dovetailed up front after a Jesus injury in the 2023-24 season, and contributed to 6-0, 5-0 and 6-0 wins over West Ham, Burnley and Sheffield United.
—Art De Roché, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
This year’s nostalgia for Jane Austen interiors (which has also dovetailed with the return of the canopy bed and is not unrelated to the resurgence of perpetual girlhood) has put candlelit lighting back on the map, and retailers are meeting the moment with modern iterations of the antique.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2025
That dovetailed nicely with the offerings, including Giovanni Ferraris’s Titanium collection.
—James Manso, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Johnson says the concussion affected his ability to concentrate and even altered his personality that year, which dovetailed with the release of his 2010 double album, The Guitar Song.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
The move dovetailed with its goal to generate 30% of its annual revenues from content produced in other languages aside from Spanish.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Her producer’s encouragement dovetailed with the music and journal entries MŌRIAH had been quietly creating backstage while touring churches across the country.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
He was focused on Srinivasan and his role as the promulgator of the Network State ideology, which dovetailed with other right-wing libertarian tech movements that sought to claim land and political sovereignty for tech elites.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dovetailed
Verb
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That usage earlier in the season coincided with injuries to Martin Odegaard and Martinelli.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Alcohol metabolism coincided with a major global climate disruption that fragmented East African forest ecosystems and left food scarce.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The younger Jackson told me that Greene had chatted with his father during his swearing-in, and the two subsequently corresponded.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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The team only used each frog once, and paired them with the hornet species that corresponded to their size.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Plus, with both petite and short inseam options, they are designed to fit right off the rack with no tailoring required.—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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Experts say cheese can fit into a balanced diet, but brain health depends on many lifestyle factors—not one food.—
Julia Ries Wexler,
Health,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The dispute was resolved after Singh agreed to provide additional context, explaining that the files were collaborative documents shared among participants through the messaging app Signal.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2026
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The state of Idaho asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, and this past summer the court agreed to review it.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Dovetailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dovetailed. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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