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What does lockstep mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lockstep? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (military) A step whereby the toe of one man is brought very close to the heel of the man in front.
  2. (figuratively) Close connection, unison, rigid synchronization.
  3. An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.
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They dance and walk sideways in lockstep and do all the things they've been trained to do.
Among them was whether a judge votes in lockstep with other judges nominated by the same political party.
For the first third of a million years or so after the big bang, matter and energy in the universe moved in lockstep.
One-size-fits-all standardized tests are driving curricula, and top-down reforms are mandating lockstep procedures for classroom instructors.
Although the hotel business tends to rise and fall in lockstep with the wider economy, not every hotelier is equally exposed.
Learning is a continual spiral rather than a lockstep ingestion of knowledge.

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