synchronize
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In a 2020 Nature Physics study, Motter's team showed that electrical generators could synchronize more successfully when they operated somewhat differently from one another.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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
A wave of teacher contracts is up for renegotiation now, thanks to a strategy the unions implemented a few years ago to synchronize expiration dates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
As they tried to absorb their lessons and experience, and to synchronize their efforts, they lived in constant fear of making any of the many egregious errors Bolles kept pointing out to them.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
“Daylight exposure synchronizes our internal clock with the external environment, reinforcing our sleep-wake cycle,” he told The Times over email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
They then discovered a temperature-sensitive genetic switch that synchronizes the production of the toxins with the production of the secretion system, and turns "normal" cells into their soldier brethren.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 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
Now a subject is made perfect and receives its perfection at one and the same time, as the reception of what is actually visible synchronizes with the reception of light in the eye.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
Electronic devices need chips that process data in a synchronized way, and SiTime makes components that facilitate this.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tracy said following a similar routine throughout the entire week may reduce those disruptions and help the body remain more synchronized.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
That’s when Kyle remembered that to make the Pacific team, you had to pass the West Coast librarian’s final test: a synchronized library-cart drill.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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"We are synchronizing efforts to protect our hemisphere from transnational and regional threats by bringing Peru, now a major non-NATO ally, into the Shield of the Americas," Rubio said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Kaya de Barbaro, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzed families with babies, synchronizing home audio recordings with the mothers’ smartphone use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
Another way, which has been studied more, is to see if they are capable of synchronizing to beats in a rhythm, Honing said.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
For example, synchronizing signals is important for busy cell networks to handle multiple phone calls.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Establishing these three calendars required advances in astronomy; synchronizing them required ventures into mathematics.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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