How to Use simultaneous in a Sentence

simultaneous

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  • The two gunshots were simultaneous.
  • Any change in the state of one of the particles triggers a simultaneous change in the state of the other.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
  • Stocks and bonds have been in a simultaneous correction for the first time in decades.
    — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The rebels mounted simultaneous assaults to the north, forcing the roads to close for days.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • One saving grace of these simultaneous slumps is that the two teams are well-matched.
    — M.j., The Economist, 31 July 2019
  • The plan calls for two simultaneous firework displays — one on the north end and another on the south end of town.
    — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
  • There will be simultaneous east and west bus tours, and the east tour starts Aug. 17 in Orlando.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 June 2017
  • The world’s youngest country faces the simultaneous scourges of civil war, famine and a cholera outbreak.
    — Conor Gaffey, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2017
  • Both of us swung our shotguns on the flock and triggered simultaneous shots.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2021
  • That tells you quite a bit about the simultaneous chaos and uneventfulness of the Oscars this year.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • However, the simultaneous blows from the storm and her health have made the way ahead difficult.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Hours later, they were jolted awake by the simultaneous buzzing of their cell phones.
    — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The ballet’s high point comes in the third act, with simultaneous pas de deux outside Musetta’s cafe.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • On Thursday, eight players at a time formed four teams to play two simultaneous games on one court.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • The day one Game Pass launch combined with simultaneous release on console, PC and the cloud.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The team drew up a list of galaxies in the region of sky where the near-simultaneous events were detected and started looking for the source.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • His daughter told him the videos only showed two of three simultaneous fights.
    — Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The union won the agreements after a six-week strike that was its first simultaneous walkout at all three companies at the same time.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
  • For some, the simultaneous disappearance of bebtelovimab and Evusheld could almost rewind the clock to the pandemic’s start.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The boy seemed to trigger simultaneous fear and doting in his mother.
    — Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the doctors ran simultaneous cases on just a handful of occasions over the past few years.
    — Justin Mayo, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • There are not a lot of words that express two simultaneous emotions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2021
  • The simultaneous presence of two or more diseases in a patient.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Jomboy Media shared simultaneous versions of the live broadcast clip and the MLB.com one.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Hip-Hop Songs chart, with the rapper landing a record-tying seven top 10 simultaneous hits on the chart.
    — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The pandemic has marked a pause in the wave of unco-ordinated but simultaneous protest movements that crossed much of the world last year.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2020
  • Leonard and Pollard never got up to speed with simultaneous fuel pump shaft failures on the restart.
    — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • Even then, however, reports numbered in the dozens, not thousands, and not in a simultaneous event.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This helped immerse the actors in an exact replica of the environment, through doorways and up and down stairs, surrounded by lots of simultaneous mics and others built into the set.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2024

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