synchronous
adjective
occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
synchronously
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a word derived from
synchronous.
Example Sentences
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But now social media is used almost synchronously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
We believe that the planet rotates synchronously, so that the same side, called the day side, always faces the star, just like the Moon does for the Earth.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
“Peanuts” holiday specials, adapted from Charles M. Schulz's beloved comic strip, were a formative fixture of my childhood that paired sweetly and synchronously with my love of books.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023
The team found that the anterior cingulate cortex—the part of the brain often associated with processing threats—fired synchronously in the participants who already believed H1N1 posed a risk.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
Better yet, a chronograph which vibrates synchronously with a tuning-fork, whose motion is kept up by electricity, is put in the same place.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
