as in routine
an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity
followed the lockstep that had been in his family for generations: prep school, Ivy League university, job on Wall Street
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Recent Examples of lockstep
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in lockstep with the president, hinted the entire deal could collapse.
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Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem after the meeting Sunday, Netanyahu and Rubio said Israel was in lockstep with the Trump administration to block Iran's path toward developing nuclear weapons.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
DeSantis is likely to pick someone who is in lockstep with him politically.
—Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
But a new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, shows a lockstep relationship between the amount of plastic found in tissues harvested from human cadavers and the amount being produced by the plastic industry.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
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Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem after the meeting Sunday, Netanyahu and Rubio said Israel was in lockstep with the Trump administration to block Iran's path toward developing nuclear weapons.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
DeSantis is likely to pick someone who is in lockstep with him politically.
—Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
But a new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, shows a lockstep relationship between the amount of plastic found in tissues harvested from human cadavers and the amount being produced by the plastic industry.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Lockstep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockstep. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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