to chime in with
/tʃˈaɪm ɪn wɪð/
phraseto be in agreement with something; to correspond to something
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1. The lead vocal takes the helm, and the background vocals chime in with call and response chants that reflect the energy of the lead.
2. To forget them, then to pass lightly over their wrongs, and chime in with the popular theme is treason.
3. Chime in with your LG feedback in the comments and be sure to subscribe to Mr. Mobile on YouTube so you don't miss the latest mobile tech from MWC.
4. The guys can chime in with some other specifics, but a daily routine for us is we get up around what would be 6 AM here basically, and we have a few minutes to get ready.
5. I mean, the guys can chime in with some other specifics.
to collaborate
/kəˈɫæbɝˌeɪt/
verbto work with someone else in order to create something or reach the same goal
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1. The two companies already collaborate.
2. The correct answer is collaborate.
3. Of course, lawyers collaborate.
4. Collaborate with them.
5. The duo even collaborated on a Christmas song, much to Rachel's delight.
collaboration
/kəˌɫæbɝˈeɪʃən/
nounthe act or process of working with someone to produce or achieve something
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1. Collaboration was so important.
2. The second thing is collaboration.
3. Collaboration is super important.
4. The hype around these limited edition collaborations fosters anticipation.
5. It required collaboration.
collaborative
/kəˈɫæbɝˌeɪtɪv/, /kəˈɫæbɹətɪv/
adjectiveinvolving or done by two or more parties working together toward a shared goal
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1. It's collaborative.
2. General Google culture is very collaborative.
3. My team is very collaborative.
4. However, the current educational system often hinders collaborative team efforts.
5. We're collaborative.
collective
/kəˈɫɛktɪv/
adjectiveinvolving, done, or shared by all members of a group
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1. So collective conscience is ideas.
2. It means collective restoration.
3. First, reimagining collective bargaining.
4. So reimagining collective bargaining.
5. Collective societies work together towards a common understood aim.
collusive
/kəˈɫusɪv/
adjectiveinvolving an activity that is secret or illegal intended to deceive people
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1. And what if any collusive links exists now or existed earlier between the Russian Federation and the republican national committee.
2. Well I guess I thought we could be more collusive and kind of work together, but I guess not.
3. They ran collusive whites-only real estate markets.
4. So it's going to be pretty difficult for us to sustain this joint monopoly output, this collusive agreement.
5. So there are various reasons why it's hard to maintain this collusive agreement.
common ground
/kˈɑːmən ɡɹˈaʊnd/
nounshared opinions, beliefs, or interests between parties that have disagreements about other things
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1. We search for common ground.
2. The tribes and cities found common ground through a mix of similar cultures, dialects, religious sanctuaries, myths, aristocratic relations, and traditions.
3. Their common ground centred around the expansionist state of Eshnunna.
4. We have to find common ground.
5. There's a lot of common ground.
compliant
/kəmˈpɫaɪənt/
adjectivewillingly obeying rules or doing what other people demand
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1. Their CM6 enterprise NVME SSDs are PC express 4.0 and NVME 1.4 compliant.
2. I'm compliant.
3. If so, then they're compliant.
4. - She's so compliant.
5. My knees were completely compliant.
to conform
/kənˈfɔɹm/
verbto think or act similar to most people in a particular society or group
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1. First of all, the brain conforms to the shape of the skull, not the other way around.
2. So, does this novel conform to the form of the Identity Plot?
3. To not conform.
4. That's conform.
5. That's conform.
conformable
/kənfˈɔːɹməbəl/
adjectivecorresponding to or agreeing with something
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1. For Nature is very consonant and conformable to her self.
2. And he said, "An action may be said to be conformable with the principle of utility when the tendency is to augment happiness, and that is greater than to diminish it."
3. Here's what Newton himself said: "Nature is very consonant and conformable to her self."
conformance
/kənˈfɔɹməns/
nounthe act of following or obeying the rules of something particular
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1. So certainly what we've learned from working in the demo schools is that if people take actions that are in conformance with the values of a trauma sensitive school, it kind of holds them in line.
conformity
/kənˈfɔɹməti/
nounbehavior that corresponds to socially accepted rules
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1. The other big issue is conformity.
2. The virtue in most request is conformity.
3. Conformity is a very important part of mass religion.
4. The other big issue is conformity.
5. Conformity breaks a person's heart.
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1. Here's the consonance.
2. Here is a consonance.
3. these are the secondary consonances, sitting in harmony with the root.
4. basically, at the heart of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale is a question about consonance.
5. but more importantly, the very idea of consonance isn't necessarily universal.
to cooperate
/ˈkwɑpɝˌeɪt/, /koʊˈɑpɝˌeɪt/
verbto work with other people in order to achieve a common goal
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1. This video is cooperating.
2. Most animals cooperate with the scientists.
3. Student: Not cooperate.
4. The reserve’s management cooperates closely with international conservation organizations.
5. Popes usually cooperated with kings over such difficult matters.
cooperation
/ˌkwɑpɝˈeɪʃən/, /ˌkwɔpɝˈeɪʃən/, /koʊˌɑpɝˈeɪʃən/
nounthe act of working together toward a common goal
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1. Cooperation, not contempt.
2. So you need cooperation here.
3. So cooperation is certainly one.
4. Their cooperation is very rigid.
5. Cooperation required a different currency.
cooperative
/koʊˈɑpɝˌeɪtɪv/
adjectiveinvolving partnership of a group of people working toward a common goal
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1. Under the cooperative, the family farms see 100% of the profits from Ocean Spray product sales.
2. The entire world electricity system, the US, are world electric cooperatives.
3. - Your fake kid-- - Wow, that guy was so cooperative.
4. They're cooperative.
5. Cooperative development is a way forward.
to coordinate
/koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/, /koʊˈɔɹdənət/
verbto control and organize the different parts of an activity and the group of people involved so that a good result is achieved
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1. They coordinate those two elements.
2. Their helmets and their weapons are coordinated.
3. Just another run of the mill coordinated familial mass suicide.
4. The system coordinates the activity.
5. - Coordinated.
to fit
/ˈfɪt/
verbto agree with or be suitable for something particular
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1. Today, thanks to electronics, tiny devices that fit behind the ear contain both energy cells and an amplifier.
2. His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
3. You know, they have the right to terminate channels as they see fit, to suspend channels as they see fit.
4. You know, they have the right to terminate channels as they see fit, to suspend channels as they see fit.
5. Pants fitted?
in accordance with
/ɪn ɐkˈoːɹdəns wɪð/
phrasein a way that agrees with something
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1. Most systems are quality tested dozens of times a day in accordance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, and notwithstanding some recent tragic contaminations, it’s considered to be overwhelmingly safe.
2. So, in accordance with this plan, in 1859, Piedmont provoked Austria into declaring war and gained quick victories.
3. Right acts, therefore, are simply those that are in accordance with the natural law.
4. In accordance with his philosophy, and contrary to the practice of the time, Confucius dissuaded rulers from relying on harsh punishments and military power to govern their lands because he believed that a good ruler inspires others to spontaneously follow him by virtue of his ethical charisma.
5. In August 2019, a boat saved more than 100 migrants and asked to dock in Italy in accordance with maritime law.
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1. It's not only a way of living it as a number, but it is a kind of active appropriation of the situation which is neither in conformity with Islamic patriarchal norms, nor in conformity with feminist secular norms.
2. They're able to choose their actions in conformity with God's will or in defiance of God's will.
3. The picture that they have is that justice is roughly acting in conformity with the regulations that society imposes upon us as considered to be meritorious, loosely speaking.
4. Glaucon's conclusion from this story is that those who practice justice, those who act in conformity with the moral code of their society, do so because they lack the power to do injustice.
5. When we think of ourselves as unobserved, it is difficult to act in conformity with moral codes.
in keeping with sb/sth
/ɪn kˈiːpɪŋ wɪð ˌɛsbˈiː slˈæʃ ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phrasein agreement with someone or something
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1. But basically, we've seen rates come down since then and I think this is part and parcel not only of the rate hike cycle where typically the long-term rates go up first I think it also is in keeping with the roll off.
2. Plus in keeping with our definition of psychological disorders, to be considered a true disorder this behavior needs to cause the person or others around them prolonged distress - the feeling that something is really wrong.
3. After a simple wedding, the couple returned to the jungle to live in keeping with the sage’s instructions.
4. In keeping with the tradition of Dancing with the Stars, Nikki, I'm gonna let you go first.
5. Within hours of her death baby Lalli is back home with her family In keeping with Hindu tradition she must be buried before sunset
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1. Sometimes my predictions are in sync with the polls.
2. Over the rest of the Pleistocene epoch, the Rhino's range continued to grow and shrink in sync with global climate.
3. They developed a calculation for adding a leap month when necessary to keep the religious calendar in sync with the solar one.
4. If you play them in sync, you can see just how much faster the golf ball rebounds off the glass.
5. The camera moves need to be in sync with the dance, so we had a good time putting that together.
joint
/ˈdʒɔɪnt/
adjectivecontrolled, done, shared, or owned by two or more people
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1. just had joints with faces on them.
2. Rheumatoid arthritis really does mess up the joints.
3. However, the lack of balance between omega-6 and omega-3 in most diets can increase joint inflammation.
4. - Where's your favorite falafel joint?
5. Your joints fit snugly together.
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1. Ford and Jangling Motors jointly developed the Ford Territory Battery Electric Vehicle.
2. This event is being presented jointly with HuffPost.
3. Today's event is being presented jointly with Reuters.
4. This event this morning is presented jointly with PRI's The World and WGBH.
5. We run a forum on health care innovation jointly with the med school.
to make common cause
/mˌeɪk kˈɑːmən kˈɔːz/
phraseto join with someone to achieve a common goal
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1. But the industry had changed its tune, questioning the science that it had once pioneered and making common cause with conservative and libertarian think tanks that promoted free market economics and thus opposed fossil fuel regulations on ideological grounds.
2. But he made common cause with Democrats on a variety of issues, whether it be the environment, civil rights or foreign policy.
3. Well, the Republicans now control both houses of Congress, and in effect, he decides to make common cause with them.
4. Make common cause where you can, whether it’s with China or Iran in the Middle East or other places, other states that may not have an identical view of the world as Putin does, but where you can make common cause at chipping away at the American role.
5. We were watching all of this unfold, Donald Trump reading from Vladimir Putin's wish list of policy positions at the same time that he was encouraging Russia to continue to interfere in our election, that he was making common cause with this Russian effort, and, perhaps most importantly, that he was trying to take maximum advantage of it.
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1. The Athenians can’t match the formidable Spartan army on land.
2. This one matches the drapes.
3. So fourteen items match
4. An ax Matches Some water A nail and some vinegar.
5. Does the plaid shirt match the underwear?
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1. The Athenians can’t match the formidable Spartan army on land.
2. This one matches the drapes.
3. So fourteen items match
4. An ax Matches Some water A nail and some vinegar.
5. Does the plaid shirt match the underwear?
