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noun

accompaniment

an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

In a sentence

Six example sentences with accompaniment, each labelled with its topic.

  • Steady rain was the accompaniment to every morning of the trek, arriving with the first light each day.

    Travel

  • Rising rents came as an accompaniment to the tech boom, arriving in the same neighborhoods within two years.

    Economics

  • Mild fever is a common accompaniment to the vaccine, appearing the same evening and fading by the next morning.

    Medicine

  • Landslides are a regular accompaniment to the monsoon in these hills, arriving within days of the first heavy rain.

    Environment

  • Higher interest rates brought a familiar accompaniment: house sales slowed within the same quarter.

    Finance

  • A faint hum was the constant accompaniment to the experiment, the sound of pumps keeping the chamber near vacuum.

    Science

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