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UK
/kəndʒˈɔɪnd/
]
[ US /ˌkɑnˈdʒɔɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑnˈdʒɔɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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consisting of two or more associated entities
the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors
social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government
How To Use conjoined In A Sentence
- KABUL -- At the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul these days, a visitor is likely to be handed a booklet about the two countries by Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq titled "The Conjoined Twins. Afghanistan builds up strategic partnership with Pakistan
- Cloacal exstrophy variants: Can blighted conjoined twinning play a role? Publications of the Urology Division
- As the embodiment of Goddess the hierodule conjoined in the sacred marriage with the king or priest, and this ritual became intertwined with the fecundity of nature.
- From seashore strands to moors and mountains, from sand specks and protozoa to all-embracing panoramas, knowing and feeling were conjoined, not conflicting, modes of apperception.
- Or do these final chapters represent conjoined failures of imagination and tolerance on the author's part?
- Or, alternatively, for many speakers of English, “I” and other subject pronouns have been converted to clitics, and thus can’t stand alone but only work in conjoined phrases (thus “for Bob and I”) or with verbs (thus “Who wants lunch? Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar
- Something is happening in the world of the conjoined and it ain't pretty. Times, Sunday Times
- The eldest son is the rector of four conjoined parishes nearby.
- Lexandro stared at Valence, and it was as if their minds conjoined for an instant - Valence would never abandon Lexandro.
- Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. Altar of Eden by James Rollins: Book summary