synchronized

past tense of synchronize
as in accompanied
to occur or exist at the same time the subtitles must synchronize with the movie's spoken dialogue

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Recent Examples of synchronized After 13 hours, the drives were synchronized, and the installation was complete. — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026 Since timing was essential, the team also synchronized the infrared laser and X-ray pulses to within one nanosecond of each other. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026 His vision was synchronized with that of his cinematographer, Kim Ji-yong. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Each track was synchronized with the moves of the dancers accompanying the idols. — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2026 Starting with what is often called the Arab Spring and ending with the Black Lives Matter protests that followed George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the demonstrations—dense, synchronized, and persistent—dwarfed older, briefer moments of global protest. — Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026 The operational complexity of keeping all of those synchronized under bursty agent loads is where production deployments quietly fall apart. — Gopi Duddi, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 It’s controlled by a central clock in the brain, which is synchronized by environmental clues, like morning sunlight. — Maggie Donahue, HEALTH, 1 Sep. 2026 Its back-end tech promises delivery within a second when needed, synchronized across viewers. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2026
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  • Written with usual suspects Dan Nigro and Amy Allen, it’s accompanied by a music video starring Saturday Night Live’s Ben Marshall as Rodrigo’s boo, and Cynthia Nixon as his mom.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Coca Cola collection will be accompanied by an ad campaign photographed by Ellen von Unwerth.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026
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  • The ice cap’s retreat coincided with anthropogenic climate change driving up summer temperatures.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Of the four patterns, engulfment was the only one that explained why more severe symptoms coincided with a worse life.
    — Deldhy Nicolás Moya Sánchez, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2026

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“Synchronized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchronized. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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