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  • This was a lot like that, except that the English translations were going on simultaneously in her head.   (source)
  • ACTION [simultaneously] RIFF:  The commanders say yes or no.   (source)
  • She wasn't one of them, by any means, and I think that was probably what the other women simultaneously admired and despised the most.   (source)
  • All three take off their hats simultaneously, press their hands to their foreheads, concentrate.   (source)
  • He was simultaneously embarrassed and terrified.†   (source)
  • I shrugged and yawned simultaneously, preparing for the just-say-no-to-drugs-sex-and-alcohol lecture.†   (source)
  • Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.   (source)
  • In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four.   (source)
  • Her face was burning and there was a dogged ache in her arms and legs—a numbness that was simultaneously painful and exhausting.†   (source)
  • I guess it's too much to hope that they'll simultaneously destroy each other?†   (source)
  • General Taheri managed a simultaneously sad and polite smile, heaved a sigh, and gently patted Baba's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Daito and Shoto logged in a moment later, appearing simultaneously at the top of the basement staircase.†   (source)
  • A mob of Unwinds with a hundred reasons to be angry have all simultaneously found one more, and that's all it takes to push them over the edge.†   (source)
  • Almost simultaneously, it attacked Thailand, Shanghai, Malaya, the Philippines, Guam, Midway, and Wake.†   (source)
  • They began a simultaneous exchange of sign.†   (source)
  • Nigel is unbuttoning Cressida's blouse and she's wondering when the sleeping pill she slipped in his Merlot will kick in, while simultaneously hoping it won't kick in too soon, because Nigel is actually quite a good kisser.†   (source)
  • I felt like I was getting ripped apart from the inside, the supernova of my selves simultaneously exploding and collapsing.†   (source)
  • Somehow she had shed her clothes and her poor self-image simultaneously, a concept that could truly put a dent in the world of cosmetic surgery.†   (source)
  • Four giant bronze cauldrons at the corners of the platform came to life simultaneously with roaring flames.†   (source)
  • In the end, CyberStorm was a swirling, simultaneous collision of events in the cyber and physical domains.†   (source)
  • She had simultaneously brought the ceiling downward, the floor upward, and the walls inward, such that anywhere he hoped to move she was already there.†   (source)
  • As he looks into them, his heart seems simultaneously to stop and to begin beating for the first time, pounding, almost threatening to burst out of his chest.†   (source)
  • Almost simultaneously, Shea launched into his brilliant "It wasn't us" story while I loudly attempted to overrule him by apologizing profusely.†   (source)
  • My docket of new death penalty cases in Alabama meant I was working insane hours driving back and forth from Atlanta and simultaneously trying to resolve several prison condition cases I had filed in various Southern states.†   (source)
  • The first night I spent in it I spun around with my arms outstretched, just luxuriating in the fact that I couldn't touch both walls simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Sir, you are aware that if I activate the LoJack system, the transponder will simultaneously inform the authorities that we have a problem.†   (source)
  • But if it ever loses its raft, it will sink and die ... A Carinaria shell is simultaneously light and heavy, hard and soft, smooth and rough.†   (source)
  • After a minute of fruitless searching, she was simultaneously relieved and disappointed.†   (source)
  • She begins to talk, a sound so simultaneously sweet and angry it disturbs him.†   (source)
  • Second Platoon would come in simultaneously on Pratt's right and advance over the seawall behind its light machine guns, then collect on higher ground and move inland.†   (source)
  • Quang-ha is sprawled out on the sofa, moving from channel to channel as if being paid by the number of programs that he can simultaneously track.†   (source)
  • If we provide these services for free, we're saving the government billions of dollars, and, more important, the results would be known simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously, we both realized that talking about my getting pregnant again was a dangerous enterprise.†   (source)
  • Lacy Houghton and Alex Cormier both fell into the latter category, and both arrived at the school simultaneously.†   (source)
  • They chose the one nearest a gold-colored cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: Somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle, and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow.†   (source)
  • Barb Wiggin had difficulty locating them in the "pillar of light," while simultaneously illuminating the Descending Angel, Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • The ease with which he does both things simultaneously is impressive and disturbing.†   (source)
  • I gagged and stumbled away from them into the dark, simultaneously grossed out and baffled.†   (source)
  • No, her pants were solid blue, and as the other Messengers cheered and clapped, her face shone simultaneously with malevolence and triumph.†   (source)
  • Gilead outlawed the first two as irreligious but legitimized and enforced the third, which was considered to have Biblical precedents; they thus replaced the serial polygamy common in the pre-Gilead period with the older form of simultaneous polygamy practiced both in early Old Testament times and in the former state of Utah in the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • In Briony's family, Mrs. Tallis never had anything to impart that needed saying simultaneously to both daughters.†   (source)
  • He dipped his head in polite farewell, simultaneously pulling the edges of the hood farther over his face.†   (source)
  • Born from separate but simultaneously fertilized eggs.†   (source)
  • "Hi there!" it said brightly and simultaneously spewed out a tiny ribbon of ticker tape just for the record.†   (source)
  • Natalie clapped as Kriss and I simultaneously fell back into our chairs.†   (source)
  • 'No,' they said simultaneously.†   (source)
  • After a perfectly cordial opening—sorry for my tragic loss, thinking of me in this time of sorrow —she offered to send me a bus ticket to Woodbriar, MD, while simultaneously alluding to vague medical conditions that made it difficult for her and Grandpa Decker to "meet the demands" for my care.†   (source)
  • By the early 1970s, Michigan had enough computing power that a hundred people could be programming simultaneously in the Computer Center.†   (source)
  • Panic is filling me, made even worse by the simultaneous heaviness that seems to be creeping over me.†   (source)
  • In my ideal scenario, my bighearted pushover husband and I die quickly and simultaneously when we're ninety-two years old.†   (source)
  • Almost simultaneously he saw different tracks in the snow in front of him.†   (source)
  • Until she is arrested— I'd get that far, until she is arrested, and then I could feel my brain expand and deflate simultaneously—my own cerebral Hitchcock zoom—and I'd think: My wife murdered a man.†   (source)
  • "Hatter Madigan," Generals Doppel and Ganger said simultaneously.†   (source)
  • It seemed at times that Dug Bar Road went in all directions simultaneously.†   (source)
  • We alternately moved our right and then our left feet to the front and back, and simultaneously did the same with our arms, shaking our upper bodies and heads.†   (source)
  • I sit and listen to the last notes from the canyon wind die, watch the skies simultaneously darken and blaze, smile at the sound of Tuk's snoring from his bedroll outside the tent, and I think to myself, If this is exile, so belt.†   (source)
  • Those loyal Dauntless gathered in the lobby and split into four groups that stormed the stairwells simultaneously, surrounding the Dauntless traitors, who had clustered around the elevator banks.†   (source)
  • Spring had finally come, and now there could be no doubt that the Allies, who had spent the winter making suitable preparations, would attack Germany simultaneously from France, Belgium and Holland, break through the Siegfried Line, take the Saarland, Bavaria and northern Germany, conquer Berlin, and liberate Warsaw that summer at the latest.†   (source)
  • I watched four volleyball games running simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Quickly, simultaneously, he falls in love with Maxine, the house, and Gerald and Lydia's manner of living, for to know her and love her is to know and love all of these things.†   (source)
  • Al talked me into writing a Mother's Day piece, which the Philadelphia Inquirer was kind enough to run simultaneously, since Ma was living in Philly at the time.†   (source)
  • At Magee, they did a wonderful job of simultaneously communicating two dissonant things.†   (source)
  • The kind of mind that works its way through undergraduate and then graduate classes in literature and criticism has a predisposition to see things as existing in themselves while simultaneously also representing something else.†   (source)
  • He's almost giddy, yammering as he often does but in a brighter mood and with greater control than usual, bubbling with images that are simultaneously daffy and brilliant.†   (source)
  • Black, but a black that seemed simultaneously an unthinkable depth into which I might fall, was falling, and a suffocating closeness ready to press me into nonexistence.†   (source)
  • The twins shivered simultaneously.†   (source)
  • It made me want to simultaneously smile back and throw up.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously, the thousand other flags also fell, as massed trumpeters and bassoonists in the Court of Honor played "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America."†   (source)
  • In the dining room where he stood, breakfast, lunch, and dinner for seventy years were all being served simultaneously just behind him.†   (source)
  • hallway and pushing the horizontal bars that secured a heavy set of double fire-resistant doors, and as these doors opened the brightness of Dubai's desert sunlight overwhelmed the sensitivity of the image sensor and the four figures seemed to become thinner, insubstantial, lost in an aura of whiteness, but they were at that moment simultaneously captured on three exterior surveillance feeds, tiny characters stumbling onto a broad sidewalk, a promenade, along a one-way boulevard on which slowly cruised two expensive two-door automobiles, one yellow, one red, the whining of their revving engines indirectly visible in the way they startled the girl and boy.†   (source)
  • Both forces are constant, and both work simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Illusions, Hearthstone signed, circling his palms at us simultaneously to represent two shifting images.†   (source)
  • The message was delivered simultaneously to Hugh Freeze: no football, no basketball—the kid couldn't even sing in the choir until he proved to the school that he could handle the schoolwork.†   (source)
  • "In the case of a solid-fuel rocket," Padorin continued, recognizing his debt to Vishenkov, wondering what he'd ask for in return, and hoping he'd live long enough to deliver, "a safety package ignites all of the missile's three stages simultaneously."†   (source)
  • There is a little speaker on his belt, simultaneously translating all of this into Spanish and Japanese.†   (source)
  • The two of them smiled simultaneously.†   (source)
  • They were crossed over at the ends, like a pair of giant chopsticks, facing up the mountain, and we turned simultaneously and sprinted for cover.†   (source)
  • Landlords filled the apartment complexes through government housing programs, which brought in African American tenants, and simultaneously cut back on upkeep, allowing the complexes to fall into disrepair.†   (source)
  • In the planning sessions we had carefully timed it to take from three to five minutes to separate the vascular structures and the remaining time simultaneously reconstructing them in both infants.†   (source)
  • George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell, and John Wilkes Booth would strike simultaneously and murder Vice President Johnson, Secretary of State Seward, and President Lincoln.†   (source)
  • If the entire network of simultaneous tiny actions that constitute a thought were identified and mapped, then "mind" might be visible.†   (source)
  • And Berger had almost simultaneously married Greger Beckman.†   (source)
  • "So," we say simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Seven armored dwarves on each side of the entrance pounded the floor simultaneously with the hafts of their mattocks.†   (source)
  • And while Constantin and I sat in one of those hushed plush auditoriums in the UN, next to a stern muscular Russian girl with no makeup who was a simultaneous interpreter like Constantin, I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.†   (source)
  • The sight of him in his uniform simultaneously comforts me—they didn't take away his ranking after last night, at least not yet—and sets me on edge.†   (source)
  • Simultaneous and contradictory information declared him victorious in Villanueva.†   (source)
  • He felt that he was a part of many images moving simultaneously in a fragmenting way that was disconcerting to the inner eye.†   (source)
  • Vee and I looked up simultaneously at the sound of Patch's voice.†   (source)
  • Reflexively wrapping the rope around his shoulders and ice ax, Schoening somehow managed to single-handedly hold on to Gilkey and Simultaneously arrest the slide of the five falling climbers without being pulled off the mountain himself.†   (source)
  • While simultaneously chewing two huge spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, he explained the general lack of masculinity of boys who played in the band: "Boys don't play onna team gotta be chicken.†   (source)
  • A passing image, perhaps a memory, but one that filled him simultaneously with sadness and with yearning.†   (source)
  • He wore his camouflage jacket and cap, an outfit with complex meaning for him, at fourteen, struggling to grow and to escape notice simultaneously, his secrets known to us all.†   (source)
  • He thumped one hand on Robert's shoulder and used the other to pump his hand in a way that somehow managed to be simultaneously both violent and flaccid.†   (source)
  • Hmm, let's see ....You send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift.†   (source)
  • A single QC had to keep an eye on two production lines simultaneously.†   (source)
  • At least three SEALS, including Tom, simultaneously took him out: three of the enemy were now dead, within ten seconds.†   (source)
  • There is an odd sensation like an electrical jolt but not so sharp—a dull twitch simultaneously in the back of my head and in my abdomen.†   (source)
  • The virus erupted simultaneously in fifty-five villages surrounding the hospital.†   (source)
  • And the Friends are simultaneously trying to build an endowment so that the hospital can survive Edna's passing.†   (source)
  • "Ca1late," Carmen and I say simultaneously.†   (source)
  • I'd lie awake at night wondering) that did away with the army man, and then the simultaneous urge to keep it concealed and to confess?†   (source)
  • So what I do is work in two systems simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Then she simultaneously dropped her arm and smile and turned toward her daughter.†   (source)
  • Actually, their tour, of the Fontaine bleau's gaudy premises went unnoticed, amid the men striding about in Bermuda shorts of candy-striped raw silk, and the women wearing bathing suits and mink simultaneously.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," Dexter said finally, holding up his hands, "we should just take a moment to really think about the fact that we've gone a long time with no big news at all, and now here, simultaneously, we have two big newses all at once."†   (source)
  • Then, with a last word of encouragement, he and the Dodecahedron (who was simultaneously sobbing, frowning, pining, and sighing from four of his saddest faces) made their farewells and watched as the three tiny figures disappeared into the forbidding Mountains of Ignorance.†   (source)
  • He was simultaneously aware of every leaf on the branches above him, every tiny pebble on the ground, every pair of eyes that rested on him.†   (source)
  • The reader is thereby protected from a confrontation too soon with the painful details, while simultaneously provoked into a desire to know them.†   (source)
  • The two got to him simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Meredith's phone and door snap shut simultaneously.†   (source)
  • The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment.†   (source)
  • Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.†   (source)
  • D. and M.D. simultaneously in the spring of the following year, 1990.†   (source)
  • And the number of surrendered guns is no match for even the number of new guns simultaneously coming to market.†   (source)
  • He could never decide whether to furgle them or photograph them, for he had found it impossible to do both simultaneously.†   (source)
  • And sure enough, whenever their voices stilled simultaneously, a thump or a creak would unmistakably sound somewhere inside the building.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounded like several women speaking simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Each driver searched for an opening and, when he saw one, leaned into the accelerator and the horn simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Claire and Cindy spoke simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Splatter from the president's head covers Hill's face and clothes as he and the fatal bullet reached the kill zone simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Several guns fire simultaneously in the woods.†   (source)
  • While recruiting for this unit and speeding up the relocation program, the government figured it could simultaneously weed out the "disloyal" and thus get a clearer idea of exactly how many agents and Japanese sympathizers it actually had to deal with.†   (source)
  • There's no way to get out, and security is notified simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Their first steps seemed tentative, taken almost simultaneously toward each other.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant wanted the replacement flag raised simultaneously with the lowering of the first one.†   (source)
  • After exchanging brief glances, they sighed simultaneously and said, "D'Ablo."†   (source)
  • "When I tell you to proceed," Cain goes on calmly, as if he's not talking about the death of a seventeen-year-old girl, "you will all simultaneously attempt to execute her.†   (source)
  • The outside was tough, but as his teeth sank in, the meat released a flood of flavor unlike anything Wells had tasted before, simultaneously salty and smoky and faintly sweet.†   (source)
  • It is one of the paradoxes of American life that white America both is fascinated by black culture and disapproves of it, embracing it and bad-mouthing it simultaneously.†   (source)
  • She simultaneously ordered confiscated the property of the next ten Attolian caravans through the pass.†   (source)
  • He was seeing two worlds, simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Then it was as though I were returning after a long suspension of consciousness, as though I stood simultaneously at opposite ends of a tunnel.†   (source)
  • He gripped the handle with his right hand, jamming it back into the netman's stomach pulling it forward at the instant of impact; simultaneously, he shot his left foot high off the deck, ramming it into the man's throat.†   (source)
  • The force that had taken Griffin's Roost represented a quarter of their available strength; Ser Tristan Rivers had set off simultaneously for the seat of House Morrigen at Crow's Nest, and Laswell Peake for Rain House, the stronghold of the Wyldes, each with a force of comparable size.†   (source)
  • How could the court hold the blacks simultaneously as property and criminals?†   (source)
  • He felt a flare of desire and a simultaneous protective twinge.†   (source)
  • "Rule twelve, paragraph nine of the Little League handbook—" While he was ranting, Frankie began simultaneously writing and reading aloud her words: "Louisville, Kentucky-Today Coach Hicks declared baseball bigger than God...."†   (source)
  • By calling members of his personal staff simultaneously and connecting them to Mort Mike not only created confusion but got Warden angry at his assistants—he flatly refused to believe their denials.†   (source)
  • She cannot hear and see him simultaneously.†   (source)
  • On the third play, he was hit simultaneously by three of them: one, his knees; another, his stomach; a third, his head—the helmet no protection at all.†   (source)
  • Never before had the lamps of the Schlernhaus been lit simultaneously or so fast.†   (source)
  • She saw the faint tightening of his facial muscles and, simultaneously, the look of something going slack in the lines of his face; she could not tell what sort of light was dying within him nor what made her think of the death of a light.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously, but without the benefit of spectators, the Amersfoort prisoners died on the rifle range outside the camp.†   (source)
  • His arrival was greeted with full presidential courtesies—simultaneous 21-gun salutes from USS Gilmore and USS Yosemite in the harbor, and the playing of ruffles and flourishes followed by the national anthem by the Marine drum and bugle corps.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if we were all to try the same thought-pattern on her simultaneously,' I suggested.†   (source)
  • We're here, we're there, simultaneously.†   (source)
  • After a couple of minutes we all simultaneously got the jitters and let her down really heavily onto the desk.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously, according to tradition, both tribes stopped their singing.†   (source)
  • A wild glee simultaneously thrilled and repulsed him.†   (source)
  • It had a bathroom so tiny he could stand in the middle and easily touch the opposite walls simultaneously.†   (source)
  • The following day every police station and every army barrack and every radio station was to be hit simultaneously.†   (source)
  • NICK rises and, simultaneously, MARTHA turns her head to face GEORGE.†   (source)
  • Franny looked at him, then simultaneously shrugged and shook her head.†   (source)
  • But around the time Maddie was born, two simultaneous transformations hit these workers.†   (source)
  • "The review will be more or less simultaneous with the examination," Louisa said.†   (source)
  • Everything is happening instantly and simultaneously; his hand seems to be a sign not only from Renny but Thomas, too, and the long knives of panic pierce my chest and belly.†   (source)
  • I wondered how many houses all over town looked exactly this way inside ...one big simultaneous holiday hangover.†   (source)
  • There were beheadings and burnings in Syria, a string of simultaneous suicide bombings in Baghdad, a Taliban raid in Kabul, a new round of fighting in Yemen, several stabbings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a gun-and-grenade attack on Western tourists at a beach hotel in Tunisia.†   (source)
  • It is at once a buoyancy and a steadying, allowing for the simultaneous gratification of whatever is centrifugal and whatever is centripetal in mind and body.†   (source)
  • (Simultaneously:) I don't care to recall how Butterfly and I said our hurried farewell†   (source)
  • We could hear the hammering of the radiators furiously working out of season, and the heat in the room dazzled and staggered us simultaneously.†   (source)
  • They could have done him no real harm, of course, but the shock and pain of having a number of his toes nipped simultaneously by an unknown antagonist must have been considerable.†   (source)
  • His letters to the War Department, printed simultaneously in the newspapers, began to have a sharp effect in decisions on the army.†   (source)
  • Almost simultaneously, many black people had become convinced that every time a black community was goaded into such an explosion, it served only the cause of racists and brought us closer to a genocidal situation.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is that you love and hate simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Needless to say, my heart simultaneously sank and broke at this awful news.†   (source)
  • The lights dim on them, having simultaneously risen full on the house; VINEY has already entered the family room, taken a water pitcher, and come out and down to the pump.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously the lights fade down on the courthouse lawn and fade up on the courtroom area.†   (source)
  • The only way people can love one another is by simultaneously knowing themselves and coming to personal, intuitive knowledge of those who are different.†   (source)
  • As Stormgren talked, it seemed to him that his mind was operating on two levels simultaneously.†   (source)
  • [HESTHER comes in simultaneously from the other side†   (source)
  • In deep meditation, there is the possibility to put time out of existence, to see all life which was, is, and will be as if it was simultaneous, and there everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.†   (source)
  • Yura and Tonia hurried across to her simultaneously.†   (source)
  • [These remarks must obviously be made very rapidly, almost simultaneously.†   (source)
  • I am presenting them, you see, only as simultaneous.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously, however, he was antagonizing the friends of Taft-Hartley, and endangering his own leadership in the Republican party, by his support of education, housing, health and other welfare measures.†   (source)
  • Powell found him charging through the rock garden of his desert home vigorously destroying desert flowers under the impression that he was cultivating, and conducting simultaneous conversations with a score of depressed people who followed him about like puppies.†   (source)
  • She saw herself, that barelegged, bareheaded, silent child, wandering in and out of the chicken-coop house—close to her mother, wrung simultaneously by love and pity for her, and by hatred for her father; and she imagined her own child, a small daughter, comforting her as she had comforted her mother.†   (source)
  • The same thought seemed to occur almost simultaneously to everyone in the cell.   (source)
  • But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports.   (source)
  • They met his eyes and simultaneously grinned.   (source)
  • No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.   (source)
  • Always there were five or six men in black uniforms at him simultaneously.   (source)
  • Fifi Bradlaugh and Tom Kawaguchi rose simultaneously to their feet.   (source)
  • The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.   (source)
  • Simultaneously with the woman in the basement kitchen he thought of Katharine, his wife.   (source)
  • The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.   (source)
  • There was a sudden explosive sunrise, and simultaneously, the Sixteen burst into song: "Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!"   (source)
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