coapts

Definition of coaptsnext
present tense third-person singular of coapt

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Verb
  • That network connects large telescope dishes in California, Australia and Spain that cooperate to keep in touch with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Flooding has also shut the Salang Pass, a high mountain pass in the Hindu Kush mountain range that connects Kabul to the country’s north, including the major cities of Kunduz and Mazar-e-Sharif.
    Abdul Qahar Afghan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Neither shows any evidence of a companion star, and both emit X-rays—an unexpected combination that links them together.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The strait, 20 miles wide, links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Former Sony Pictures Television International exec Maria Fleischer joins as Executive Producer, while Charlie Silver arrives from House Productions to take up the role of Development Producer.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Stoudemire joins a lineage of Jewish basketball icons in the Hall of Fame, including Sue Bird, who was inducted last year, Nancy Lieberman, Nat Holman, Barney Sedran, Max Friedman and Dolph Schayes — the only other Jewish player to have his number retired in the NBA.
    Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But Paul Anthony Kelly is a less deft actor than Pidgeon, and he is given material that adheres even closer to the surface of the legend.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But one coach who adheres closely is Army’s Jeff Monken.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Pocket Grip also features a central hex drive that clamps a standard hex bit.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The device, which clamps onto the line just above the hook and pairs zinc and graphite in seawater, creates a small electric field about the size of a beachball around the hook, and rattles approaching sharks.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Lawmakers reject a bill that ties students’ attendance to driver’s licenses.
    Adam Beam, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Air India is preparing to roll out a policy that ties cabin crew eligibility to Body Mass Index (BMI) standards — a policy that's generating controversy and comment.
    Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • That’s due to the Moon and Saturn, since their trine unites the hungry drive of your 10th house with the analytical logic of your 2nd house.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In Nazi Germany, the regime understood that nothing unites a restless population faster than a common enemy.
    Steven Burg, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Joe Rodon clips a pass over the top of the Brentford defence for Calvert-Lewin to contest.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The holder clips right to your pack or waders and keeps everything in a neat, easy-to-dispense stack.
    Francesca Krempa, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Coapts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coapts. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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