coterminous

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While satellite imagery has been around for decades, without recent advances in cloud computing, Lark says it was impossible to classify the nearly 2 billion acres of land in the coterminous U.S.

From Science Daily

Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities.

From Washington Post

An aerial view, the flattened sidewalk is coterminous with the flat paper on which Lawrence painted, filling it edge to edge.

From Los Angeles Times

This culture isn’t coterminous with what has recently emerged as a slippery, insulated, narrative-controlling criminal class hiding in plain sight.

From The New Yorker

Past, present and future are coterminous here, a sense underscored by Jon Clark’s lighting and Luke Halls’s video projections, which summon an eternal Manhattan that is equal parts steel and shadow.

From New York Times