How to Use concordance in a Sentence

concordance

noun
  • There is little concordance between the two studies.
  • One area that has lagged behind is what researchers calls dyadic sleep, or sleep concordance.
    — Bruce Feiler, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2016
  • Placing the two books side by side displays an arching concordance.
    — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • One is a listing of all the words in a text—that’s a concordance, a genre first developed as a tool of biblical scholarship.
    — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2023
  • Four decades ago, Gordon suggested a way to compare two knots by complexity, based on concordance.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
  • My twitter followers exhibit a stronger concordance of interests, but still far less than those people who sought me out on Google+.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
  • But even if environmental activists and the government reach some kind of concordance on how to reduce fire risks, the challenge ahead is immense.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
  • This concordance between the visual and the electrical in graphene almost seems to be an example of life imitating art right down to the quantum level.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2019
  • In many cases, mathematicians resort to a less stringent concept called concordance.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
  • Increasing patient-physician racial and ethnic concordance may help in establishing trust.
    — Dr. Nicole Farha, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The idea of your genitals and your mind operating separately from each other is a concept called genital non-concordance.
    — Vanessa Marin, Allure, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The concordance of these methods is reassuring, since the underlying phenomena is the same.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2013
  • Even without perfect provider-patient racial concordance, a more diverse workforce can indirectly benefit patients.
    — Akila Muthukumar, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In truth, that’s a payoff for Nelson, who imposes no unifying aesthetic beyond a general concordance with modernism.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • There are interesting concordances between the documentaries on offer.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The second is the concordance, which also dates from the 13th century and is a listing of all the occurrences of individual words in a text—originally the text of the Bible.
    — Ben Yagoda, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Magic shows strong evidence of heritability, with familial aggregation and concordance in twins.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2010
  • When the vaccines were first introduced in December, studies demonstrated that racial/ethnic concordance led Black patients to seek more information about the vaccine.
    — David E. Velasquez, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
  • Early biblical concordances — alphabetical indexes of words in the Bible, along with their context — allowed for some of the same types of analyses found in modern-day textual data-crunching.
    — Samuel Arbesman, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2013
  • Finally, there is the pattern of male lineages exhibiting some concordance with Southeast Asia, but female lineages being entirely indigenous.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2013
  • Additionally, racial concordance in clinician-patient interactions has been shown to improve health outcomes, particularly among black patients.
    — Uche Blackstock, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Priscilla Rodriguez, senior vice president for college readiness assessments at the College Board, said the organization in these meetings has spelled out steps needed for a valid concordance.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In concordance with Newton's Third Law, chucking material off the asteroid would propel the spacecraft in the opposite direction toward Earth.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2016
  • Conducting research in killer whales, or orcas, researchers have now discovered that certain elements of their culture have exerted evolutionary pressure on the whales, altering their genes in concordance with specific behaviors.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2016
  • The concordance shows the old result was neither a statistical fluke nor the product of some undetected flaw in the experiment, says Chris Polly, a Fermilab physicist and co-spokesperson for the g-2 team.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Contrary to popular belief, language concordance alone does not guarantee effective communication or patient adherence to medication and behavioral changes.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • Russia’s manipulation of global grain supplies is surely targeted at Europe and the United States, where a clear concordance exists between political actors opposed to migration and those reluctant to back Ukraine.
    — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The developer of a statistical method called factor analysis, Charles Spearman, concluded in 1904 that a general factor of intelligence, called a g factor, must underlie the concordance of measurements for varying human cognitive skills.
    — Eka Roivainen, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023

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