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

Ambivalence isn’t neutrality; it’s the simultaneity of strong, opposed emotions, and I think it defines my experience as a critic.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023

So many things of both celestial and terrestrial nature happened at once in Washington on Tuesday that their simultaneity seemed to require attention.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

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

Like the proof of the irrationality of V2, like the discussion of simultaneity in special relativity, this is an argument in which the premise is challenged because the conclusion seems absurd.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan