consistent
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3.5
- adjective
- /kənˈsɪstənt/
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consistente
- The research findings are consistent across multiple studies, indicating a reliable trend in the data.
- consistent results
- consistent findings
- consistent pattern
Change your environment and start taking consistent action towards your goals.
- Change your environment and start taking consistent action towards your goals.
- He is now making consistent efforts and progress.
- I was just very consistent day in, day out.
- It's a great platform for a consistent, endless output of content.
- It's reproducible, consistent, how it's been always.
- Next question here, how do you stay consistent in your relationship with God?
- So I'm just being consistent and I think is important.
- And let's maintain a consistent skin care routine this year.
- You have to be consistent weeks and months and years.
- And this podcast here is one of the most consistent podcasts on all platforms.
Examples
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Are you taking your medication on a consistent basis?
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Our collaboration helped to ensure a consistent quality of work in an agreed-on lesson plan format.
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Change your environment and start taking consistent action towards your goals.
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I was just very consistent day in, day out.
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Next question here, how do you stay consistent in your relationship with God?
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This is much more consistent than what we saw in the club competition.
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What it really is is you just have to be consistent.
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The question becomes how to ensure that 11,000 students have a consistent experience in technology education.
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But it is a consistent message flowing outward.
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Rankings of the importance of management skills were consistent among the four groups surveyed.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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2.7
Stays the same over time
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2.7
Able to be trusted to do what is expected
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2.0
Not changing over time and remaining the same
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3.7
Always the same in all parts and at all times
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4.9
Can give the same result when done again
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7.0
Not changing when conditions change
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4.8
Not changing over time and always the same
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4.3
Very steady and reliable in what someone does
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7.3
In agreement with others or showing the same result
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Etymology
Consistent comes from Latin con- 'together' and sistere 'to stand', meaning to 'stand firm', like the English word 'stand'. That's why consistent results are those that 'stand firm' each time and give the same, repeatable outcome.