synchronizing

verb

present participle of synchronize
as in accompanying
to occur or exist at the same time the subtitles must synchronize with the movie's spoken dialogue

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Recent Examples of synchronizing To maintain responsiveness, DLSS 3 was paired with NVIDIA Reflex, which reduces system latency by synchronizing CPU and GPU workloads, ensuring that the higher frame rates do not come at the cost of input lag. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026 One of the more demanding environments involved the Integrated Data Submission (IDS) platform, responsible for synchronizing school calendar information with transportation routing systems supporting students with disabilities. — William Jones, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 For Hyliion, synchronizing multiple KARNO units marks a significant engineering milestone beyond the performance of a single generator. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026 This can be bolstered by establishing public-private partnerships, synchronizing supply chains, and facilitating the exchange of threat intelligence—no entity should operate in isolation. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 How was everyone synchronizing their clocks a hundred years ago? — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 The second screen shows raw footage from one of the 17 cameras, synchronizing with the edited version at various moments during the hour-and-a-half runtime. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026 The Saturday night balloon glow is a literal highlight, pilots synchronizing their burner ignitions for a spectacle guaranteed to bring on oohs and ahs. — Shauna Farnell, Denver Post, 25 May 2026 Working out the process of synchronizing and timing the cantilevers’ motion and light beams to generate the right colors at the right time was a substantial effort, according to Andy Greenspon, a researcher at MITRE who also worked on the project. — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for synchronizing
  1. accompanying
  2. coinciding
  3. coexisting
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  • The footage was captured on July 24, according to an ESA statement accompanying the image, just two weeks after SMILE's ultraviolet imager was switched on, offering an exciting first taste of the science to come.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Kelly Saco and Jeremy Tache won’t be accompanying the team from FanDuel to WPLG.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of accompanying
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  • Black officers constitute less than 9% of the force, coinciding with a decline in the city’s Black population.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Another standalone film, the Ryan Gosling-starring Starfighter, is due out in May 2027, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of A New Hope.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of coinciding
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  • Rather than coexisting, the electrical and magnetic states actively push against each other.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The one worth asking is whether your payments stack can absorb whichever rail ends up mattering, or, more realistically, whichever three of the four end up coexisting without forcing a rebuild six months later.
    — Dimitri Akhrin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of coexisting

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“Synchronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchronizing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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