as in proportion
a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts
planted azalea bushes on both sides of the front steps for symmetry
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Recent Examples of symmetry
The architectural gestures are classic and direct — symmetry, height, proportion — while the materials and finish work do the heavy lifting.
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David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
The result is a tidy symmetry that ought to make savers look twice.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
But what if shape isn't the most important type of symmetry?
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New Atlas,
9 June 2026
The symmetry of our lives becomes apparent.
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Zinzi Clemmons,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for symmetry
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
The result is a tidy symmetry that ought to make savers look twice.
—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
But what if shape isn't the most important type of symmetry?
—
New Atlas,
9 June 2026
The symmetry of our lives becomes apparent.
—
Zinzi Clemmons,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for symmetry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for symmetry
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FactSet tracks the distribution of individual stock ratings; there have not been a higher proportion of Buys back to 2009.
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The art was in selection, proportion and rhythm.
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Stop seeking harmony and start seeking the truth.
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Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg contributes upright bass, Rob Moose supplies string arrangements, Caroline Shaw handles vocal arrangements and harmonies, and Blake Mills, Christian Lee Hutson, Marshall Vore and Nate Walcott all make appearances.
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The shape of the heel with a wider base provides more support, providing significantly more stability, balance, and weight distribution than traditional slim or stiletto heels.
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Globally, the top concern is work-life balance, specifically when job demands consistently exceed the time and energy workers have to meet them.
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There might be really only a couple of musical numbers, the rest of Bizet’s score is more subtly suggested in clever orchestrations by composers Amine Bouhafa and Isabelle Laudenbach.
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Stripe began as a payments API and has since expanded into billing, issuing, fraud, treasury orchestration, and, through its acquisition of Bridge in late 2024, stablecoin infrastructure.
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Wicked, another Broadway powerhouse, famously lost in that category, but that hardly dispels the correlation between Tony awards and staying power, seeing as Wicked won in three other categories.
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Researchers found correlations between sentiment patterns and certain performance indicators.
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This unity of purpose is amplified by a newly uniform soundscape.
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The blender, like the writer, is searching for complementarity, for the moment when diversity becomes unity, when differences become harmony.
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But a minimum level of coherence is necessary so that the message does not break at the first collision with reality.
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What’s beyond dispute is that it has been meticulously designed to harness sound frequencies and equipped with an orchestra of instruments, from singing bowls to a crystal harp, that have been custom-made for tonal coherence.
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The clock is ticking, again, and their resources and equilibrium have dwindled, again.
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But Claire has her limits from the lopsided equilibrium — Libras bounce when the romantic balance is off-kilter.
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“Symmetry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/symmetry. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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