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The proton folded from two dimensions into three and became a gargantuan sphere in synchronous orbit, about the size of the giant moon.† (source)synchronous = happening at the same time or in coordinated sequence
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With a sound like a dry twig snapping, a section of the lip of the vase came away in his hand, and split into two triangular pieces which dropped into the water and tumbled to the bottom in a synchronous, seesawing motion, and lay there, several inches apart, writhing in the broken light.† (source)
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Leah and Seth whined together, their noses turning my direction in synchronization.† (source)synchronization = the process of making things happen at the same time or in a coordinated sequence
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From this foundation, Katherine Solomon's research had vaulted forward, proving that "focused thought" could affect literally anything—the growth rate of plants, the direction that fish swam in a bowl, the manner in which cells divided in a petri dish, the synchronization of separately automated systems, and the chemical reactions in one's own body.† (source)
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The TV wall was a kind of game board of diagonals and verticals and so on, interlocking tarots of elemental fate, or synchronous footage running in an X pattern, and whatever the mathematics of the wall there were a hundred images running at once, here comes the car, here comes the shot, and even though it wasn't part of the footage Klara was sure there was a Hertz sign on top of the Book Depository—she'd seen it in photographs, forgotten about it until now and thought it was another passing strangeness, however minor, a rent-a-car sign brooding over the motorcade.† (source)synchronous = happening at the same time or in coordinated sequence
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Four drills we equipped with self-synchronous repeater drives so that Mike could control them himself—liberated these selsyns at Richardson; astronomers used them for Bausch cameras and Schmidts in sky mapping.† (source)
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The motion was fluid, synchronized, as if they had practiced it.† (source)synchronized = caused to happen at the same time or in a coordinated sequence; or set clocks/watches to show the same timestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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I mean this literally, for synchronous with the stunning effect she made on my eyes as she stood there arrested in the doorway—blinking at the gloom, her flaxen hair drenched in the evening gold—I listened to myself give a thin but quite audible and breathless half-hiccup.† (source)synchronous = happening at the same time or in coordinated sequence
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All this synchronization business and mumbo-jumbo.† (source)synchronization = the process of making things happen at the same time or in a coordinated sequencestandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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He began synchronizing on the light, hoping to hit the Zero before it took off.† (source)
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How could they possibly synchronize a meeting with their friends?† (source)synchronize = cause to happen at the same time or in a coordinated sequence; or to set clocks/watches to show the same time
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We're unsynchronized.† (source)unsynchronized = not happening at the same time or in a coordinated sequence; or (of watches/clocks) not set to show the same timestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsynchronized means not and reverses the meaning of synchronized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronise with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a single individual.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it synchronize.
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Once your wiring synchronizes, you should be able to load it with a simple thought.† (source)synchronizes = causes to happen at the same time or in coordinated sequence
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But even though we were perfectly synchronized in our pressing of the play button, his movie started a couple seconds before mine, so at every funny moment, he'd laugh just as I started to hear whatever the joke was.† (source)synchronized = caused to happen at the same time or in a coordinated sequence; or set clocks/watches to show the same time
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In a synchronous movement, they spun and heaved the weapons across the hall, each axe finding its mark in the same keg of mead.† (source)synchronous = happening at the same time or in coordinated sequence
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