as in to accompany
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 synchronize Advertisement Years ago, our lab showed in brain scans that listening to the same piece of music caused people's brain waves to synchronize. Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025 Rather than costly reshoots or disruptive dubbing, VisualDub seamlessly synchronized new audio with existing footage. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025 His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body movements to music was believed to be a uniquely human activity. Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025 Traditionally, asteroids are spotted using full-fledged optical telescopes that capture time-lapse images of the sky over minutes or hours, with the telescope synchronized to track the stars. David Szondy august 03, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for synchronize
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  • The economy has so far largely avoided the type of widespread job losses that often accompany a recession.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Truwitt was accompanied by her best friend, fellow former Yale swimmer Sophie Pilkinton, who had her own big win to celebrate after finishing medical school.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Zdon and his talented group of classmates, which includes nine third-year starters, have been instrumental in helping reverse Grant’s fortunes, with their arrival coinciding with Norwood becoming coach.
    Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The totals included two new records, coinciding with a subsiding Middle Tennessee heat wave.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
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  • In a world where humans and machines coexist, this requires hybrid intelligence — the complementarity of natural and artificial intelligences, which is conditioned by double literacy – a holistic understanding of self and society, people and planet, combined with the candid comprehension of AI.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Let’s show the nation a City of Big Shoulders and how peaceful protests and armed troops can coexist.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Synchronize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchronize. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.

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