correspond
verb (used without object)
to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to).
corresponds
-
present tense formof correspond (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A reading of 100 corresponds to the options market pricing roughly six basis points of daily movement in Treasury yields over the following month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
"At the LHC, we're colliding particles at extremely high energy, which corresponds to tiny distance scales," Incandela said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Their size corresponds to small arrowheads, which are directly comparable to those produced by Homo sapiens during an incursion into Neanderthal territory in the Rhône Valley, 25,000 years later.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Institutions run by the Catholic Church now threaten to place an undue burden on parents that would effectively deny them the fundamental right to choose a school that corresponds to their own convictions,” he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It seems fair to say that Brunelleschi’s image aspires to exemplify what philosophers call a correspondence theory of truth, in which a statement or representation is true if it corresponds to external reality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
