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The term “correspondingly” is employed to link parallel changes or contrasting conditions between two aspects of a discussion, essentially indicating that one shift naturally comes with a proportionate adjustment in another. Authors use it to demonstrate that a specific alteration—whether it be quantitative or qualitative—in one element is mirrored by a similar transformation in another. For instance, in scientific discourse, phrases like “the cortical shell exhibit correspondingly a different number and disposition” ([1]) or “if large quantities of air are compressed … the pressure exerted becomes correspondingly greater” ([2]) connect measurement with effect, while in sociological or personal narratives, transitions such as “the child … assumes an air of independence, and parental authority is correspondingly weakened” ([3]) or “he was made correspondingly uneasy” ([4]) underline the balanced relationship between changing factors. This usage lends coherence to complex comparisons by mapping parallel dynamics across disparate subjects.
  1. The Latticed Domes (cupolas or chambers) of the cortical shell exhibit correspondingly a different number and disposition in the three known genera.
    — from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel
  2. If, now, large quantities of air are compressed into a small space, the pressure exerted becomes correspondingly greater.
    — from General Science by Bertha May Clark
  3. The child being required to support himself early, assumes an air of independence, and parental authority is correspondingly weakened.
    — from Unfettered: A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
  4. It was exactly what James, as we know, had come for, and he was made correspondingly uneasy.
    — from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. by John Galsworthy

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