How to Use concurrency in a Sentence

concurrency

noun
  • The root of this predicament is a procurement model known as concurrency.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The 8i, meanwhile, is built for post-training and high-concurrency reasoning.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The service is concerned that speeding things up could introduce concurrency issues.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2021
  • Universal has asked for traffic concurrency approval for the project, known as Project 566.
    — Sandra Pedicini, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2017
  • What is for certain, however, is that the concurrency model has been a persistent, decade-long headache for everyone involved.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The very low availability rate of early F-35s calls into question the wisdom of the concurrency scheme to begin with.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
  • To speed things along, the Pentagon adopted a procurement process known as concurrency, in which airplanes would be built before the design was finalized.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
  • If not for the concurrency strategy, the production line wouldn’t start until 2019 at the earliest.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
  • Predictable transactions give way to sustained throughput, massive concurrency and wildly variable access patterns—often all at once.
    — Sven Oehme, Forbes.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This remarkable concurrency isn’t the only remarkable thing happening here.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2019
  • The most valuable lesson learned from the F-35, however, may be to never, ever use concurrency to drive a major weapons program ever again.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In using Erlang, WhatsApp is part of a larger push towards programming languages that are designed for concurrency, where many processes run at the same time.
    — Cade Metz, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2015
  • The broadcast reached 65 million concurrency households in the United States, making up 56% of all viewership in the country.
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Under a concept known as concurrency, Lockheed Martin started producing planes prior to the design being finalized in order to get them into the hands of pilots faster.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Public hearings, comprehensive plans, zoning rules, concurrency requirements — these are the tools ordinary people use to say where growth belongs, what should be protected, and how development pays its own way.
    — Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Under the concurrency concept, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin started building the jets before the development process was finished.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2019
  • However, when performing OLTP at scale, architectural designs of a database residing on servers go out the window due to that extreme concurrency.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Under a manufacturing concept known as concurrency, F-35 production began before the jet’s hardware and software was completed.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Hybrid cloud architectures must enable short query response times (to meet rigorous SLAs), high throughputs (to query large volumes of data) and high concurrency (to support multiple workloads).
    — Rohit Amarnath, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • When set up properly, APIs can handle high concurrency and large volumes of requests efficiently, ensuring better performance compared to direct database queries.
    — Artyom Keydunov, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Suppose your company’s goals include unlimited concurrency and instant response times in delivering analytics.
    — Rohit Amarnath, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The introduction of virtual threads and significant security improvements not only make Java more efficient for handling high concurrency but also offer stronger protection against cyber threats.
    — Shamaila Mahmood, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • By analyzing frequency and concurrency patterns, organizations can classify applications as core, supporting or nonessential.
    — Fran Rosch, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Rapyd Cloud’s Challenges and Triumphs Building an infrastructure capable of handling high concurrency and dynamic interactions was a significant challenge.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The Air Force intentionally introduced concurrency with the F-35 fighter to make planes available to pilots sooner, with the idea that the service would eventually update the early production jets to match the final hardware and software standard.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2021

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