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asynchronous

[ay-sing-kruh-nuhs] / eɪˈsɪŋ krə nəs /
ADJECTIVE
not occurring at the same time
Synonyms
STRONGEST
nonsynchronous
STRONG
allochronic uncontemporaneous
WEAK
nonparallel serial
Antonyms


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It could be that they provide people living in different time zones with a way of keeping in touch that's more asynchronous than phone calls, but more personal than texts.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

This type of asynchronous, always-on capability separates claws from conventional AI chatbots where work happens in real time through back-and-forth exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Our digital feeds are asynchronous, hindered by advertisements and algorithms that either show us exactly what we want or desperately try to turn us onto something new.

From Salon ● May 22, 2025

Gifted children, more than others, tend to shine in certain ways and struggle in others, a phenomenon known as asynchronous development.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

But instead, it turned out that debugging these asynchronous multithreaded programs was really hard.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams


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