1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page188:
A story, a science fiction film, or, in fact, a scientific theory, can thus be positioned at a higher and later turning of the spiral, diachronically, butsynchronically it can be a performance of a pattern or theme.
2007 September 29, Maria Lasonen-Aarnio, “Single premise deduction and risk”, inPhilosophical Studies, volume141, number 2,→DOI:
In particular, risks can pile up not onlysynchronically, as in multi premise deductions, but also diachronically, when a subject extends her knowledge by competent deduction from just one premise.
2025, Cid Swanenvleugel,The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page19:
He dividessynchronically opaque Sardinian toponyms into segments supposedly related to Basque lexical roots. For instance, the Ogliastan toponymsDolai,Dodoliai andIridolai, analyzd as *dol-ai, *do-dol-iai and *iri-dol-ai, in his view, all three contain a cognate of Bq.odol 'blood'.
