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  • adverb In a coterminous way.

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  • adverb in a coterminous manner

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Examples

  • The Palestinians may–but probably not–be descendants from the Canaanites who populated the land coterminously to the Hykksos expulsion from Egypt under Ramses II.

    Turn off the lights, for now everything just seems so right | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • This was a series about the Marine Corps that ran coterminously with the war in Vietnam, but never mentioned that, in real life, Gomer and his buddies would have been sent to Khe Sanh to be blown to shreds and eaten by rats!

    Archive 2008-11-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • This was a series about the Marine Corps that ran coterminously with the war in Vietnam, but never mentioned that, in real life, Gomer and his buddies would have been sent to Khe Sanh to be blown to shreds and eaten by rats!

    Genres That Die Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • If Board were to adopt this radical doctrine that its fiduciary duties are defined coterminously with the minimum duties imposed by law, then Dartmouth will have to reevaluate its policies in many areas where it imposes obligations on itself that exceed the bare minimum required by law.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Darmouth 1891 Agreement a Contract? 2007

  • What science is unable to do is to provide us with any information about which set of principles or which sets - its perfectly plausible that multiple sets of principles operate coterminously is operatively correct.

    Anti-Feminists Attack Pharyngula (yes, again) 2005

  • And how in the world can anyone see the light at the end of the "stepped-up efforts to resolve the larger political turmoil in Somalia" tunnel without first (or coterminously) physically defeating radical al-Qaeda-linked Islamists armed to the teeth, blowing up anything in their path and running half of Somalia?

    ThreatsWatch 2009

  • I think too that there’s an extra dose of pleasure or understanding to be had from reading poets who are your own age, experiencing life and its stages coterminously with you.

    2010 February 18 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010

  • I think too that there’s an extra dose of pleasure or understanding to be had from reading poets who are your own age, experiencing life and its stages coterminously with you.

    Robin Robertson’s latest Collection of Poetry 2010

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