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synchronize

[sing-kruh-nahyz] / ˈsɪŋ krəˌnaɪz /


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By adjusting different parameters, users can watch network components interact, synchronize and form organized patterns.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

"We present a relatively simple method that could be scaled up to synchronize multiple distant qubits," says Andrés-Juanes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Ms. Daanje dramatizes their struggle to make their experiences of reality synchronize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Over time, tidal forces synchronize the planet's rotation with its orbit, causing one rotation to take the same amount of time as one trip around its star.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

How could they possibly synchronize a meeting with their friends?

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Today, GPS serves as a foundational macroeconomic pillar: It manages international supply chains, synchronizes global cellular networks, guides autonomous agricultural machinery and timestamps high-frequency trades on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

It also helps drive the electric signal that synchronizes the contraction of the millions of heart muscle cells required for the heart to function as an efficient pump.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

This clock synchronizes and coordinates our body’s circadian rhythms, which help us prepare for things that happen at various times of day — such as falling asleep at night and waking up in the morning.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

The identification synchronizes with the airline booking information and informs the officer that the bearer of the ID is a ticketed passenger and is eligible to proceed through security.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022

Its commencement synchronizes with the centenary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh’s Mission.

From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi

To some observers, the synchronized drop in tech stocks and Treasury yields — compounded by rising crude oil prices — looked like an ominous macroeconomic signal.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

It now encompasses a mashup of disparate tire shops, oil change outfits and repair centers, including franchises and company-owned stores, that maintain their local identity but benefit from being part of a synchronized national network.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

They are too synchronized with the vibe to bail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A recent study suggests that the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault can become synchronized, with a major earthquake on one fault potentially followed by seismic activity on the other.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Reminded me of the Olympics—the only thing I like to watch, besides running, are the synchronized swimmers.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

PepsiCo anticipates retraining and redeploying some drivers to other types of work, including managing the new equipment, synchronizing the movement of people who go to the stores, or handling the unloading themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

The big draw of space for data centers is power supply, with the option of synchronizing satellites to the sun's orbit to ensure constant light beaming onto solar panels.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

"We have uncovered a surprising solution that the brain employs after sleep whereby neural populations participating in the task reduce their level of synchrony after sleep despite receiving synchronizing inputs during sleep itself," Dragoi said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

The second synchronizing force, which Turchin calls contagion, is "even more potent."

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023

The cycle referenced in the title is a system for synchronizing the ritual and solar years by adding extra months to the calendar at intervals of two years, but not in the eighth year.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro


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