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SIMULTANEOUSLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the same instant

Example:

they spoke simultaneously

Synonyms:

at the same time; simultaneously

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

simultaneous (occurring or operating at the same time)

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 Context examples: 

The researchers found that borrelidin simultaneously occupies the enzyme binding sites for the amino acid L-threonine, molecule tRNA, and energy molecule ATP.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

Something as simple as an everyday conversation causes the brains of the participants to begin to work simultaneously.

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Quincey and I simultaneously moved towards him, and took his arms.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Amy and Louisa Eshton had cried out simultaneously—"What a love of a child!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A lot of people don’t realize that mosquitoes have kidneys, and when they take a blood meal from you they also urinate on you almost simultaneously.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

TP53BP2 contains ankyrin repeats and an SH3 domain, required for interaction with p53 and BCL2; TP53BP2 cannot bind both proteins simultaneously.

(Apoptosis-Stimulating of p53 Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Monoblastic sarcoma may precede or occur simultaneously with acute monoblastic leukemia. (WHO 2001). —2003

(Monoblastic Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This prevents transcription of certain genes involved in cancer-associated signaling pathways; it specifically inhibits the transcription of both NF-kappa B and heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) and simultaneously activates p53.

(FACT Complex-targeting Curaxin CBL0137, NCI Thesaurus)

These mice did not have the gene changes that lead to heart failure as seen in mice lacking GR, while simultaneously exhibiting a gain in function of genes that protect the heart.

(Healthy hearts need two proteins working together, National Institutes of Health)