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Concomitant was introduced into English at a time when many people were criticizing the use of Latinate forms in favor of more "native" words from Old English. As a descendant of Latin concomitari ("to accompany") and ultimately of "comes," the Latin word for companion, "concomitant" may well have been initially derided as an ostentatious inkhorn term. Indeed, two associated words, the verb concomitate, meaning "to accompany," and another adjective, concomitaneous, meaning "of a concomitant nature," didn't survive to accompany "concomitant" into the 18th century.
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Stephen Whitty, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Feb. 1999
The Lincoln and Johnson plans for settling the problems of peace and freedom never seriously touched on the concomitant problem of equality.
—John Hope Franklin, "The Two Worlds of Race," 1965,
in Race and History, 1989
But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them.
—Thomas Jefferson 4 Feb. 1818,
in Thomas Jefferson: Writings, 1984
The drug's risks increase with the concomitant use of alcohol.
an improvement in the facilities led to a concomitant improvement in morale
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In the local bickering which was a concomitant of the grand campaigns of the wars, there may have been considerable fighting around fortifications, even if on a relatively small and brief scale.
—Anthony Goodman, The War of the Roses, (1981) 1996
… there is a demand for schools, professional services, and such other concomitants of a full society as courthouses and jails.
—Anthony Bailey, New Yorker, 25 May 1987
hunger, a lack of education, and other concomitants of poverty
disease is all too often one of the concomitants of poverty
Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 15 Feb. 2024
There are 54 constituent countries that make up the continent and each one of them must operate with due diligence both toward the needs and aspirations of its own citizenry and a concomitant coherence in its foreign policy.
—Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
With its increase has come a concomitant drop in office benches, said Trevor Langdon, the chief executive of Green Standards, a company in Toronto that refurbishes and resells office furniture.
—Ellen Rosen, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
The dramatic effect of their exodus and the concomitant neglect of the housing was evident when Blige and her mother and sister arrived in Schlobohm.
—Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
Studies of concomitant administration of Covid and RSV vaccines are still underway.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 21 June 2023
The imperative is fitting for a small, rural town nearly 100 miles from Houston, where one either worked for local plants or jumped into gangbanging and its concomitant hustles.
—Max Bell, SPIN, 29 June 2023
Patient navigation programs offer individualized assistance that can help patients access the right care in a timely fashion with concomitant psychosocial support along the way.
—Samyukta Mullangi and Vinayak Venkataraman, STAT, 31 May 2023
As for reductions in depression and anxiety, and improved quality of life and sleep, those areas could be concomitant—in addition to the cessation of substance use—for whole-life benefits.
—Korin Miller, Health, 11 May 2023
Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
Since Season 2, nearly every episode has inspired concomitant think pieces.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
My research deals with how a purely economic approach to copyright and a concomitant disregard for expressive freedoms threaten the digital domain.
—Hannibal Travis, The Conversation, 22 May 2023
The consequence, as noted above, was cities, and the inevitable concomitant of cities was states.
—George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
Meanwhile, occupation forces committed scores of atrocities in both countries — some the typical concomitants of war, some simply gratuitous crimes, as in the torture dungeon at Abu Ghraib and the Nisour Square massacre.
—Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
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“Concomitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concomitant. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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