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simultaneously

Use the adverb simultaneously to describe actions that occur at the same time. You are reading this sentence and simultaneously learning a new word!

Simultaneously doesn’t have to describe two different actions. It just means that things are happening at the same time. If a presidential debate is broadcast simultaneously on three television channels, “broadcast” is the only action but it’s happening in three places at once.

DEFINITIONS OF: simultaneously

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adv at the same instant

“they spoke simultaneously
Synonyms:
at the same time
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