coextensive
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The spread of his works was coextensive with the rise of romanticism in Europe.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition.
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2017
The rights of citizenship of the native born and of the naturalized person are of the same dignity and are coextensive.
From MSNBC • Jan. 6, 2016
The history of jazz is coextensive with the history of recording; it’s a media-centric art form, but the essence of jazz is performance.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2014
It has a wide geographical distribution, including tropical Africa, parts of Asia, the West Indies, the southern United States, and—in Europe—Greece, Sicily and Sardinia; but its range is not coextensive with malaria.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
