coterminous
adjective
co·ter·mi·nous
(ˌ)kō-ˈtər-mə-nəs 
1
: having the same or coincident (see coincident sense 2) boundaries
a voting district coterminous with the city
2
: coextensive in scope or duration
… an experience of life coterminous with the years of his father.—
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coterminously
adverb
Synonyms
Examples of coterminous in a Sentence
the Alfred Lunt–Lynn Fontanne partnership was more or less coterminous with Broadway's golden age
Massachusetts' Nantucket County isn't quite coterminous with the island of the same name, as the county includes two small nearby islets.
Recent Examples on the Web
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
This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
They are not always codified in or coterminous with international law.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Clearly, then, the gambit is designed to have, coterminous with Trump’s criminal prosecution by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, a parallel probe of the Bidens.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
Tohoku then is coterminous with the former Emishi region.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
Although time was still widely regarded as fluid and coterminous with eternity, the monastery was governed by the rhythms of that most modern instrument: the clock.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Which means that on the starboard side of American politics, the Overton window has now shifted far beyond the boundaries of democratic self-government to a place broadly coterminous with fascism.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 28 July 2021
Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
They are not always codified in or coterminous with international law.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Clearly, then, the gambit is designed to have, coterminous with Trump’s criminal prosecution by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, a parallel probe of the Bidens.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
Tohoku then is coterminous with the former Emishi region.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
Although time was still widely regarded as fluid and coterminous with eternity, the monastery was governed by the rhythms of that most modern instrument: the clock.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Which means that on the starboard side of American politics, the Overton window has now shifted far beyond the boundaries of democratic self-government to a place broadly coterminous with fascism.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 28 July 2021
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“Coterminous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coterminous. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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