correspond with (someone or something)

correspond with (someone or something)

1. To match or correlate to something. Does this character in the book correspond with one in the movie, or did they eliminate him completely? Does this chart correspond to the information given in the report? Because something's not adding up for me. A: "Is this your script?" B: "Yep. Yellow highlights correspond with your lines and pink ones with my lines."

2. To communicate with one in a series of messages, typically written ones. When I was a kid, I used to correspond with my sister by writing her letters while she was away at summer camp. I've been corresponding with Sarah about the new team of engineers she's overseeing, and it sounds like it's going well! Hmm, let me correspond with Lisa—maybe she can make sense of this invoice.

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correspond with someone (about someone or something)

 and correspond (with someone) about someone or something

to write letters back and forth with someone about someone or something. I will have to correspond with the manager about that. I corresponded about this with my brother. I corresponded with my brother for over a year. We corresponded about Fred.

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