coextensive
adjective
co·ex·ten·sive
ˌkō-ik-ˈsten(t)-siv 
: having the same spatial or temporal scope or boundaries
coextensively
adverb
Examples of coextensive in a Sentence
South Dakota's Todd County is coextensive with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.
the golden age of Dutch culture was roughly coextensive with the Netherlands' reign as a world power
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Beyond this subset of works, the chipmunk paintings are also coextensive with the entire body and thrust of her production.
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Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Being online was not coextensive with being alive.
—Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
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Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan).
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Being online was not coextensive with being alive.
—Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?
—New York Times, 21 May 2021
The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
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“Coextensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coextensive. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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coextensive
adjective
co·ex·ten·sive
ˌkō-ik-ˈsten(t)-siv
: having the same length or boundaries in space or time
coextensively
adverb
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