simultaneity

Example Sentences

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For several years, he has been a persistent and often lonely voice calling for America to get serious about the simultaneity problem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“This album is an exploration of the simultaneity of human emotions,” she wrote of last year’s “Fatigue,” “the audacity of joy in the wake of grief, disappointment in the face of accomplishment.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

We tag along for a visit to a genteel gallery opening in St. Gallen, Switzerland, but what sticks in the mind is Motherwell’s self-aware observations about the simultaneity of art movements.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

About midway, Nolan spectacularly ramps up this backward-forward simultaneity: a battle sequences involves a “temporal pincer movement,” with two army detachments working together, but in different directions in time.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2020

Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan