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Concurring   /kənkˈərɪŋ/   Listen
Concurring

adjective
1.
Being of the same opinion.  Synonym: concordant.



Concur

verb
(past & past part. concurred; pres. part. concurring)
1.
Be in accord; be in agreement.  Synonyms: agree, concord, hold.  "I can't agree with you!" , "I hold with those who say life is sacred" , "Both philosophers concord on this point"
2.
Happen simultaneously.  Synonym: coincide.



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"Concurring" Quotes from Famous Books



... any sentiment in which, amidst the innumerable varieties of inclination that nature or accident have scattered in the world, we find greater numbers concurring, than in the wish for riches; a wish, indeed, so prevalent that it may be considered as universal and transcendental, as the desire in which all other desires are included, and of which the various purposes which actuate mankind are only subordinate ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson

... I have enabled successive commandments to make reductions in the enrolled Pensioner Force. By withdrawing the guard from Rottnest Island, and by concurring in the reductions at out-stations, a very considerable saving has thus been effected. I have given all the encouragement in my power to the Volunteer movement, and I may confidently state that the Volunteer Force was never before in so good a state, either so ...
— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

... timely entering into measures and managements, as well public as private, that all the confusions that followed were brought upon us, and that such a prodigious number of people sunk in that disaster which, if proper steps had been taken, might, Providence concurring, have been avoided, and which, if posterity think fit, they may take a caution and warning from. But I shall come to ...
— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe

... the debates in Congress, especially to the speech of Mr. Buchanan when a Senator, to the decisions of the Supreme Court, and to the usage from the beginning of the Government through every successive administration, all concurring to establish the right of removal as vested in the President. To all these he added the weight of his own deliberate judgment, and advised me that it was my duty to defend the power of the President from ...
— History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, • Edumud G. Ross

... Constantine, by his dying father, which is warranted by reason, and insinuated by Eumenius, seems to be confirmed by the most unexceptionable authority, the concurring evidence of Lactantius (de M. P. c. 24) and of Libanius, (Oratio i.,) of Eusebius (in Vit. Constantin. l. i. c. 18, 21) ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon


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