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correspond as in:  corresponding time period

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    The bones in a bat's wing exactly correspond to those in a human forearm.
    correspond = are equivalent (have similar form)
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    All of the factors — disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests — had to correspond and to interact perfectly.  (source)
    correspond = fit together
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    Louie had a rare biomechanical advantage, hips that rolled as he ran; when one leg reached forward, the corresponding hip swung forward with it, giving Louie an exceptionally efficient, seven-foot stride.  (source)
    corresponding = matching
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    The light of his faith quite put out, and his affections made desolate, he had clung with all the force of his nature to his work and his money; and like all objects to which a man devotes himself, they had fashioned him into correspondence with themselves.  (source)
    correspondence = a match that fits
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    The book is broken up into eight chapters, corresponding to eight years that had a decisive impact on our respective lives.  (source)
    corresponding = matching
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    Which Colin did when he was ten, by making up a 99-word sentence in which the first letter of each word corresponded to the digit of pi (a=1 b=2, etc.; j=0).  (source)
    corresponded = was matched
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    With more on this we go to our correspondent...†  (source)
    correspondent = connected or related by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
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    Those two content units correspond closely to the two parts into which the form typically breaks.  (source)
    correspond = align
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    The Nazis paid informants 7.50 guilders (which corresponds to about $45 today) for every Jew in hiding they were able to track down.  (source)
    corresponds = is the equivalent
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    I pull out Shade's letter from the little box where I keep all his correspondences.†  (source)
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    Over the past half decade, the traffic on all of the Seven Summits, especially Everest, has multiplied at an astonishing rate. And to meet the demand, the number of commercial enterprises peddling guided ascents of the Seven Summits, especially Everest, has multiplied correspondingly.  (source)
    correspondingly = proportionately
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    (*) "Le radici e corrispondenze," their roots (i.e. foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other states—a common meaning of "correspondence" and "correspondency" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries†  (source)
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    From hence there ariseth a triple Word of God, Rational, Sensible, and Prophetique: to which Correspondeth a triple Hearing; Right Reason, Sense Supernaturall, and Faith.†  (source)
    Correspondeth = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She correspondeth" in older English, today we say "She corresponds."
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correspond as in:  corresponding by email

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    Do either of you have copies of your correspondence?
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    But her replies eventually got longer and we began to correspond.  (source)
    correspond = write to each other
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    By the spring of 1944, the mothers of the Green Hornet crewmen, as well as other family members, had begun to correspond.  (source)
    correspond = exchange letters through the mail
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    The mail is unpredictable and I'm sure your uncles will be watching my correspondence.  (source)
    correspondence = written letters
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    I'm sorry I'm such a poor correspondent, Chris; I found myself in a tangle of cases this past month.  (source)
    correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
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    I used to correspond with them, you know, after I got back to Moscow, and then they suddenly stopped writing.  (source)
    correspond = exchange letters through the mail
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    At the age of twelve, he began corresponding with local geologists about rock formations he had seen in Central Park, and he so impressed them that they invited him to give a lecture before the New York Mineralogical Club.  (source)
    corresponding = exchanging letters or messages
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    Your boy Waters and I corresponded a bit, and in his last—  (source)
    corresponded = communication by writing letters or messages
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    Everett Ruess's correspondence reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and Chris McCandless.  (source)
    correspondence = written letters
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    "You are not Sirius's only correspondent," said Dumbledore.  (source)
    correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
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    Beatrice and I don't correspond unless there's a major event in the family.  (source)
    correspond = exchange letters through the mail
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    What would she be corresponding with Taius about?  (source)
    corresponding = exchanging letters or messages
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    Certain military people who corresponded with her dropped hints about things without meaning to, and she and Peter put them together to build up a fascinating and frightening picture of Warsaw Pact activity.  (source)
    corresponded = communicated by writing letters or messages
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correspondence as in:  a correspondence course

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    I don't live in Los Angeles yet, but I joined the organization as a corresponding member.
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    With a quick glance at the door to check that Filch wasn't on his way back, Harry picked up the envelope and read: kwikspell A Correspondence Course in Beginners' Magic.  (source)
    Correspondence = done from afar (by mailing letters, reports, etc.)
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    Classes: A weekly correspondence course in shorthand.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar via written communication
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    Anything more than correspondence school was out of the question.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar (by mailing letters, reports, etc.)
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    Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society.  (source)
    Corresponding = distant (not generally present--historically communicating through writing)
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    Probably you have some correspondent in Greece?  (source)
    correspondent = an agent who represents someone in a distant place based on written communication
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    Then Tererai took correspondence classes and began saving money.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar (by mailing letters, reports, etc.)
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    I draw upon him for 600,000. francs, my bills are returned unpaid, and, more than that, I hold bills of exchange signed by him to the value of 400,000. francs, payable at his correspondent's in Paris at the end of this month.  (source)
    correspondent = an agent who represents someone in a distant place based on written communication
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    Your generous correspondence course in philosophy is greatly appreciated by us here.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar via written communication
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    By his own account, most of the time that he wasn't working with horses, he spent reading and studying for a correspondence course he'd signed up for.  (source)
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    Michael didn't know, but Sean told her that they had just started the BYU program of correspondence courses.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar
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    He did his high school courses by correspondence, sitting at the kitchen table and studying by the light of a kerosene lamp; he put himself through university by working in lumber camps and cleaning out rabbit hutches, and was so poor that he lived in a tent in the summers to save money.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar (by mailing letters, reports, etc.)
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    It didn't mean much in terms of getting one closer to a college degree (for that you needed to pay for correspondence courses), but it did count toward "program" credit with an inmate's case manager.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar
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correspondent as in:  foreign correspondent of the paper

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Let's get a report from our correspondent in Mexico City.
correspondent = reporter
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    Our correspondent in Iran was kidnapped.
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    "Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent.  (source)
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    Bob Simon, CBS's on-air correspondent for the story, thought that this would probably be his only chance to question Watanabe, so there in the lobby, he began grilling him about his treatment of Louie.  (source)
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    I met real estate developers, agents, heiresses, fund managers, lawyers, clothing designers, professional basketball players, photographers, movie producers, and television correspondents.  (source)
    correspondents = reporters
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    Story by Matthew Hill, BBC Health Correspondent From BBC News  (source)
    Correspondent = reporter
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    Every evening the war correspondents report on the difficulties, the courage and the fighting spirit of the army.  (source)
    correspondents = reporters
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    I wanted to tell people it was me, but the BBC correspondent had told me not to, as it could be dangerous.  (source)
    correspondent = reporter
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    If someone had been able to encapsulate the kindness of these second graders in pill form, the pills would undoubtedly put many war correspondents out of business.†  (source)
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    Although news from Barcelona is heavily censored, word has got through to our correspondent in Paris of clashes between rival Republican factions in that city.  (source)
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    My correspondents wrote and called for another reason, too.†  (source)
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    It seems as though the Ministry of Magic's troubles are not yet at an end, writes Rita Skeeter, Special Correspondent.  (source)
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    Marocchino also cultivated a close relationship with news correspondents by wining and dining them during their stay in Mogadishu.†  (source)
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    Jake Barnes, newspaper correspondent and wounded war veteran.  (source)
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