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as in adjacent
having a border in common
for two nations that are conterminous from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the U.S. and Canada have had remarkably little strife
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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
the county and the school district are conterminous
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Recent Examples of conterminous
The temperature outlook predicts enhanced probabilities of above normal temperatures over much of the western conterminous U.S.
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Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 1 Feb. 2024
In 1999, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the species as threatened throughout the conterminous United States under the Endangered Species List.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
—Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 1 Feb. 2024
In 1999, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the species as threatened throughout the conterminous United States under the Endangered Species List.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
Australia, the island continent, is roughly the same size as the conterminous United States.
—Patrick D. Nunn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
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An additional bonus is that the region is also a major beer producer and adjacent to Bohemia, the original home of Pilsner beer. Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico Closer to home, the Valle de Guadalupe is located near the U.S. border, about two hours South of San Diego.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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The location of handsets also cannot be determined with complete accuracy based on phone signals; phones that seem to be in one neighborhood may be in an adjacent one.Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.Seth Joseph, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Another suggestion is that there were two more or less coincident eruptions, one each in northern and southern hemispheres.Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2011
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On a marble coffee table in the adjoining room is a stack of Gap fabrics—denim, khaki, jersey—which Posen hopes to drape on a mannequin today.Irina Aleksander, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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The adjoining Floral Salon is done up in pale pink and white tones, with frothy textures.Joelle Diderich, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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There doesn’t have to be a grand underlying purpose that guides you along your breathing living journey.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Rather, those little white or yellowish crumbs could be signs of a few different issues that deserve your attention, like dry skin craving moisture, for example, or an underlying condition leading to irritation or inflammation.Jenna Ryu, SELF, 20 Dec. 2024
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Since 2003, those percentages have varied widely from year to year, from only 17.6% last year to a whopping 63% of the contiguous U.S. in 2009, Weather.com said.Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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There are also widespread winter weather warnings across the contiguous U.S., with winter weather advisories, lake effect snow warnings, cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings blanketing northern states.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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The nation’s period of domestic bliss was practically coterminous with the presidency of James Monroe, a Democratic-Republican whose landslide victory in 1816 accelerated the Federalist Party’s collapse.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
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From the moment of her father’s death and her subsequent coronation—receiving the Crown of St. Edward on her head, and bearing its almost five pounds of weight upright for the next three hours—the vast dimensions of her status as queen were coterminous with the diminutive dimensions of her person.Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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