as in synchronism
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a state in which things happen, move, or exist at the same time
The objects moved in synchrony with each other.
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Recent Examples of synchrony
And this interbrain synchrony — which only occurs in certain brain areas, not the whole brain — seems to support things like teamwork.
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Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 1 Oct. 2025
These pairs seemed to use synchrony as a jumping-off point for exploring more ideas rather than an end.
—Emily Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
How about the first time two boosters landed side by side, punctuating the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with thrilling synchrony?
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
The researchers tested the impact of the intensity, as well as the presence of synchrony in the participants’ physical activity.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 1 Oct. 2025
These pairs seemed to use synchrony as a jumping-off point for exploring more ideas rather than an end.
—Emily Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
How about the first time two boosters landed side by side, punctuating the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with thrilling synchrony?
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
The researchers tested the impact of the intensity, as well as the presence of synchrony in the participants’ physical activity.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synchrony
Noun
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As the image turns, in absolute synchronism with the turning of a receiving cylinder at the distant point, the high and low spots of the relief image are brought under a point or stylus.—
Mark Fischetti,
Scientific American,
1 Dec. 2022
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Synchronism colors are not blended but rather placed next to each other, just as music notes are placed one after the other to create a scale.—
Hailey Ross,
idahostatesman,
16 June 2017
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The movie’s vision is one of arrangements and connections, stylistic and textural clashes of hulking buildings, stark forms seen in distant vistas, sublime coincidences of collective energy thrumming from generation to generation in the simultaneity of the physical city’s chronological strata.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Seems somewhat of a coincidence.—
Melanie Anzidei,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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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
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Cloud object stores often introduce unpredictable latencies and steep egress fees at scale, especially when serving inference workloads that demand low response times and massive concurrency.—
Sven Oehme,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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“Synchrony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchrony. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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