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
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.
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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
For Rising, his misfortune and some good timing dovetailed to put him here.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 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
With a fistful of A-list co-signs, Brown leaned into a bad-boy image that dovetailed with the lucrative fusion of soft hooks and tough talk by contemporaries like Drake.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
The incident, which quickly dovetailed into a larger conversation about government and Hollywood censorship, was seemingly par for the course for Alonzo and her specials.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Armani’s sleek tailoring and unfussy silhouettes dovetailed with Diana’s new chapter as an independent woman and global humanitarian.
—Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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
For Rising, his misfortune and some good timing dovetailed to put him here.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 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
With a fistful of A-list co-signs, Brown leaned into a bad-boy image that dovetailed with the lucrative fusion of soft hooks and tough talk by contemporaries like Drake.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
The incident, which quickly dovetailed into a larger conversation about government and Hollywood censorship, was seemingly par for the course for Alonzo and her specials.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Armani’s sleek tailoring and unfussy silhouettes dovetailed with Diana’s new chapter as an independent woman and global humanitarian.
—Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dovetailed
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Xi’s and Lee’s banter coincided with hints of warming relations between the two Asian nations.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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During his tumultuous decade as part of the Disney empire, which coincided with the rise in Marvel’s Avengers cinematic universe as a box office juggernaut, Perlmutter famously was at odds with the studio’s creative team.—
Erik Hayden,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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Morelli also corresponded with the man obtaining the videos for him and asked that the torture of the animals be prolonged in subsequent videos, according to a copy of the indictment filed in the case and obtained by PEOPLE.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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For this study, researchers analyzed data from 770 young, healthy adults to examine how certain aspects of their health and performance corresponded to different attributes of their sleep.—
Emma Loewe,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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Every backpack has its own unique features—some can fit snuggly under a plane seat, while others come in a water-resistant and lightweight material.—
Michelle Baricevic,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Oct. 2025
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Historically, having wider calves meant no (actually cute) knee-high boots on store shelves or online would fit me.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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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Dassey’s conviction was overturned in August 2016, and a judge agreed in a June 2017 panel that his confession had been illegally obtained and that he should be released or retried within 90 days unless the case was further appealed.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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In a very rare and likely precedent-setting agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious jars while enslaved, to his present-day descendants.—
Jori Finkel,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Dovetailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dovetailed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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