simultaneity

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In the meantime, we need realistic strategies for coping with simultaneity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

So many things of both celestial and terrestrial nature happened at once in Washington on Tuesday that their simultaneity seemed to require attention.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

This simultaneity of emotion and experience has been all but unavoidable these last two years.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

About midway, Nolan spectacularly ramps up this backward-forward simultaneity: a battle sequences involves a “temporal pincer movement,” with two army detachments working together, but in different directions in time.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2020

The problems of simultaneity do not apply to sound as they do to light because sound is propagated through some material medium, usually air.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan