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The term "simultaneous" in literature often serves to evoke a sense of events, sensations, or actions unfolding in real time, underscoring the immediacy or interconnectedness of diverse elements. In prose, it can highlight synchronized occurrences—whether in physical actions, as in coordinated military movements ([1], [2], [3]), or in the nuanced interplay of internal states and external events, where emotions or perceptions are portrayed as occurring at once, merging past experiences with present reactions ([4], [5], [6]). The word also finds its place in technical and philosophical discourses within literary works, where it is employed to discuss ideas from harmony in music to simultaneity in scientific thought, thereby enriching the narrative with layered meanings ([7], [8], [9]). Overall, its versatility as a descriptor allows authors to link together diverse phenomena, whether tangible or abstract, creating a unified moment of experience.
  1. Secy., Palace, Manila: Seven-thirty this evening simultaneous reports from north and south sides of town Pulajans approaching.
    — from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
  2. About Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous expedition....
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  3. The attack was to be simultaneous, by the four divisions, on a signal.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  4. But now, to the faintness of his love there corresponded a simultaneous faintness in his desire to remain her lover.
    — from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  5. The point was to tell whether [Pg 410] two signals were simultaneous or successive; and, if successive, which one of them came first.
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  6. Simultaneous sensations originally fuse into one object, 488 .
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  7. For the same reason, melody (relation of successive notes) is stressed, rather than harmony (relation of simultaneous notes).
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  8. Integration of a system of two simultaneous linear equations of the first order.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  9. Composition of two simultaneous rotations about parallel axes; case where the rotations are equal and of opposite kinds.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson

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