synchronizing

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
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  • Organizers said accompanying information will identify each material’s development stage using Technology Readiness Levels, helping visitors distinguish early prototypes from products already available for commercial use.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The team set out to develop a method for creating connection points along tiny insulated wires right where each accompanying microchip would need them.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026
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  • Skechers entered both the soccer and basketball markets in 2023, with the announcement of the former coinciding with news of Kane’s endorsement deal.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The study’s authors stopped short of claiming the coinciding diversification of Cretaceous plants and oviraptorosaurs (the larger dinosaur group encompassing caenagnathidae) are directly related.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026
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  • 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

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“Synchronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchronizing. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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