as in to coincide
to be in agreement on every point
the Union and the Confederate accounts of the battle don't dovetail at all
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Recent Examples of dovetail
The focus on hearing health, whether regarding Gelsinger personally or more broadly, dovetails well with recent events such as AirPods Pro becoming over-the-counter hearing aids and Apple’s newest holiday ad.
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Steven Aquino, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
This dovetailed with a larger deinstitutionalization movement that argued that federal money for mental health and addiction care should be shifted to local communities.
—TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Here is an idea that neatly dovetails with MBS’s hopes for peace in the Middle East, but one that is equally impossible without normalization – and an independent Palestinian state.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Then book a pre-game bar crawl with Arizona Party Bike, whose tours dovetail with spring training games.
—Nora Heston Tarte, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
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Steven Aquino, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
This dovetailed with a larger deinstitutionalization movement that argued that federal money for mental health and addiction care should be shifted to local communities.
—TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Here is an idea that neatly dovetails with MBS’s hopes for peace in the Middle East, but one that is equally impossible without normalization – and an independent Palestinian state.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Then book a pre-game bar crawl with Arizona Party Bike, whose tours dovetail with spring training games.
—Nora Heston Tarte, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dovetail
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Liu’s career has, however, neatly coincided with the post-Mao period — one that has seen architecture freed from state control and socialist ideals.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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My trip happened to coincide with a visit by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.—
Nicholas Lalla,
WIRED,
4 Mar. 2025
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The equation no longer corresponds to a Turing machine that computes perfect squares—and, more generally, the Diophantine equations can no longer encode the halting problem.—
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
9 Mar. 2025
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Under Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force has defined a highly effective strategy; corresponding operational concepts and technologies; and a new training regimen to ensure U.S. equities in space are secured.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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This order serves only two purposes: to score partisan political points in a manufactured culture war and to purge the military of those who don’t conform to MAGA ideology.—
Johnny Weixler,
The Denver Post,
24 Feb. 2025
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Fear of retaliation, social conditioning, and the pressure to conform make speaking up difficult.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Expect to see more leagues — NBA and MLS seem to fit the model — try to import 4 Nations-style magic for their all-star games.—
Dan Shanoff,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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In fact, carrying an iPad is an expert packing hack to ensure everything fits in your carry-on bag when traveling.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Dovetail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dovetail. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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