How to Use concomitant in a Sentence

concomitant

adjective
  • The drug's risks increase with the concomitant use of alcohol.
  • But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them.
    Thomas Jefferson, 4 Feb. 1818
  • Tasty stuff can be made with a ton of what gets thrown away, with concomitant money saved (along with trips to the store, and packaging, and …).
    Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Still, this life as a working artist and mother—and its concomitant mama guilt—gnaws at her.
    Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But even if the numbers are really that high, there hasn’t been a concomitant uptick in symptoms.
    David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Given the beating concomitant with playing catcher, the heights of Mauer’s career at the plate are even more impressive.
    Si.com Staff, SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The concomitant global supremacy of both the U.S. industrial sector and the country’s military might achieved by the end of the war proved Luce to be prophetic.
    Ike Brannon, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Each instance of pain seems to produce a concomitant sensation of euphoria—both of us leave the room feeling high.
    Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Those crimes, and their concomitant defenses, retint the story with outrage.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The result has been a huge number of complaints throughout academe and a concomitant growth of bureaucracy.
    William Stadiem, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2016
  • The result has been a huge number of complaints throughout academe and a concomitant growth of bureaucracy.
    William Stadiem, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2016
  • Cotton wealth led to a concomitant rise in the district’s slave population.
    The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
  • But some haven't thrived in a virtual setting, and many say the concomitant isolation and burnout now outweigh the benefits.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • Before the rise of the urban bourgeoisie and then recordings, and the concomitant decline of amateur performance, this was how music lived: in homes, in front of small groups.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But, as the buildings and their concomitant problems begin to fade away, a different menace is filling the lots left behind.
    Lucas Joel, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The stock market is at or near record highs, and America’s firms are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash that would help tide them over in the event of any downturn and concomitant fall in sales and profits.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The first barrier is cost of training and concomitant financial risk.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • In the past half century the number of rainy winter days per year on the archipelago has more than doubled, with a concomitant increase in the amount of icebound tundra.
    The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • But Huynh and others in the field said that the decrease did not necessarily reflect a concomitant decline in substance abuse.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2019
  • Unless of course the spread of rice agriculture was concomitant with population replacement, as opposed to the spread of the allele itself.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2010
  • Though there is no one cause for its growing prevalence, social media, the 24/7 news cycle and the concomitant decline in civility surely play a role.
    Caryn M. Sullivan, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • The growing pie would was not matched by concomitant population increase.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2011
  • These concomitant forces narrowed the possibilities of who the neighborhood kids could and couldn’t become.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The remedy for such abuse of power and its concomitant obstruction of Congress is clear: impeachment.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • In areas that lucked out and found themselves getting paid more for the same medical care, there was a concomitant brisk increase in medical services rendered.
    Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • That creature adapted long ago to live in human settlements, and developed a concomitant taste for human blood.
    Justin Gillis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2016
  • There is a whimsical kind of comfort to be found in this simplicity, and the concomitant sense that, in those pre-Internet days, bare facts, plainly told, were enough to fire up the imagination.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
  • There was a time when Mr. Cuomo would celebrate his ability to broker an on-time budget for New York with a snappy slogan and concomitant keepsakes.
    Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2017
  • That may be very good for a single country but when several of them do it and a currency war erupts, there is a real danger of uncontrolled economic shock and concomitant pain around the world.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2016
  • The book tour and its concomitant responsibilities are necessary evils to sell books.
    Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 24 July 2019

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