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synchronous
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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)
  • 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)
  • 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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  • The motion was fluid, synchronized, as if they had practiced it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • It WAS a bore to be down by ten—an hour regarded at Bellomont as vaguely synchronous with sunrise—and she knew too well the nature of the tiresome things in question.†  (source)
  • All this synchronization business and mumbo-jumbo.†  (source)
    standard 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.
  • Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while — listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it.†  (source)
  • How could they possibly synchronize a meeting with their friends?†  (source)
  • We're unsynchronized.†  (source)
    standard 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.
  • 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.
  • Once your wiring synchronizes, you should be able to load it with a simple thought.†  (source)
  • After each day of sea search, he and another pilot synchronized their returns to Oahu.†  (source)
  • However, Wang soon realized that the stars in the formation were in a synchronous orbit above the planet, moving together against the dimmer, more distant background of the Milky Way.†  (source)
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