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synchronize

[sing-kruh-nahyz] / ˈsɪŋ krəˌnaɪz /


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Huygens noticed that clocks attached to the same support could gradually synchronize because of the weak mechanical interaction transmitted through that shared structure.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Ms. Daanje dramatizes their struggle to make their experiences of reality synchronize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The findings reveal the many ways animals exchange information to synchronize their behavior and maintain partnerships that benefit both sides.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

Frequency combs generated in this way could help synchronize very different systems, connecting ultrafast terahertz signals with conventional electronics or even quantum devices.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026

How could they possibly synchronize a meeting with their friends?

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Today, GPS serves as a foundational macroeconomic pillar: It manages international supply chains, synchronizes global cellular networks, guides autonomous agricultural machinery and timestamps high-frequency trades on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

But during a seizure, the chatter synchronizes into loud bursts of electrical activity that overwhelm the brain's casual conversation.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024

This clock synchronizes and coordinates our body’s circadian rhythms, which help us prepare for things that happen at various times of day — such as falling asleep at night and waking up in the morning.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

Shanara Gabrielle vibrantly synchronizes with the assignment she’s given: Mary Hall Surface’s “Chance,” a tale that unfolds around the miscarriage of a middle-aged woman.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

Now a subject is made perfect and receives its perfection at one and the same time, as the reception of what is actually visible synchronizes with the reception of light in the eye.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

It now encompasses a mashup of disparate tire shops, oil change outfits and repair centers, including franchises and company-owned stores, that maintain their local identity but benefit from being part of a synchronized national network.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Electronic devices need chips that process data in a synchronized way, and SiTime makes components that facilitate this.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The researchers needed to confirm that the two qubits were actually synchronized inside the quantum bath.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

That allows several police vehicles to broadcast a synchronized public safety announcement while flashing the same light-signal pattern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Madge and I swing our trombone cases front and back, synchronized.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Kaya de Barbaro, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzed families with babies, synchronizing home audio recordings with the mothers’ smartphone use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

The big draw of space for data centers is power supply, with the option of synchronizing satellites to the sun's orbit to ensure constant light beaming onto solar panels.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Another way, which has been studied more, is to see if they are capable of synchronizing to beats in a rhythm, Honing said.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

That stop signal, which reaches all the excitatory neurons simultaneously, only lasts so long, ends up synchronizing their activity, producing a coordinated gamma brain wave.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Establishing these three calendars required advances in astronomy; synchronizing them required ventures into mathematics.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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