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Coterminous
"Coterminous" in a Sentence (9 examples)
By far, most land owned by the federal government is in the American West. The feds own almost 47 percent of the 11 coterminous Western states, which include California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The U.S. government owns a whopping 85 percent of land in the state of Nevada.
New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.
To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.
These eighty-two parishes were roughly coterminous with the existing seigneuries, but not always so.
The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree, is a well-known Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community.
But it is purely fantastic unless we bear in mind that the governing class has been continually compelled to enlarge itself, and that its tendency is reluctantly to go on doing so until in the end it will be coterminous with the "governed class."
From this it follows at once that language and thought are not strictly coterminous.
The elision of moral and moralising arguments is common, but the two aren't coterminous.
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