coterminous
Example Sentences
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While satellite imagery has been around for decades, without recent advances in cloud computing, Lark says it was impossible to classify the nearly 2 billion acres of land in the coterminous U.S.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022
An aerial view, the flattened sidewalk is coterminous with the flat paper on which Lawrence painted, filling it edge to edge.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2018
This is an irony only until you realize that the labor of a verbal craftsperson, the work of nailing words onstage or in print, is virtually coterminous with a stutterer's inner life.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2017
And neither is coterminous with the ‘Amazonian rainforest.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
