synchronizing

verb

present participle of synchronize
as in accompanying
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 synchronizing The campaign materials describe a strategy of synchronizing protests across continents, connecting student demonstrations, workplace actions, rallies and civil disobedience from Asia to the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. — Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026 By synchronizing 12 traffic signals between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and John Tyler Drive, Caltrans can now adjust signals in real time. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 To maintain responsiveness, DLSS 3 was paired with NVIDIA Reflex, which reduces system latency by synchronizing CPU and GPU workloads, ensuring that the higher frame rates do not come at the cost of input lag. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026 One of the more demanding environments involved the Integrated Data Submission (IDS) platform, responsible for synchronizing school calendar information with transportation routing systems supporting students with disabilities. — William Jones, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 For Hyliion, synchronizing multiple KARNO units marks a significant engineering milestone beyond the performance of a single generator. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026 This can be bolstered by establishing public-private partnerships, synchronizing supply chains, and facilitating the exchange of threat intelligence—no entity should operate in isolation. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 How was everyone synchronizing their clocks a hundred years ago? — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 The second screen shows raw footage from one of the 17 cameras, synchronizing with the edited version at various moments during the hour-and-a-half runtime. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for synchronizing
  1. accompanying
  2. coinciding
  3. coexisting
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  • The order and accompanying legislation must be designed so that collecting and disseminating foreign trade secrets advances defense and intelligence priorities and does not unduly distort the free market.
    — DAVID S. COHEN, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Tornado potential will increase as rain bands accompanying Isaias approach the northeastern Gulf Coast Friday evening and overnight.
    — MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of accompanying
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  • Skoden will celebrate Native American culture coinciding with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Fried and his partner are expecting their first child this week, coinciding with Fried starting a Game 3 elimination contest in which the Tampa Bay Rays could knock the Yankees out of the playoffs and end their season.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of coinciding
Verb
  • Rather than coexisting, the electrical and magnetic states actively push against each other.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The one worth asking is whether your payments stack can absorb whichever rail ends up mattering, or, more realistically, whichever three of the four end up coexisting without forcing a rebuild six months later.
    — Dimitri Akhrin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of coexisting

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“Synchronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchronizing. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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