coextensive

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The spread of his works was coextensive with the rise of romanticism in Europe.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

The two are coextensive and indistinguishable according to these concurrences.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2021

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

By Nationalism, which Englishmen forty years ago favoured everywhere except in Ireland, Acton meant, as he explains, "the complete and consistent theory that the State and the nation must be coextensive."

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron