correspond with

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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References in classic literature ?
The amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, does not strictly correspond with the succession of our geological formations; so that between each two consecutive formations, the forms of life have seldom changed in exactly the same degree.
Never during the 11 centuries prior to that was the Sun nearly as active." They pointed out that periods of high solar activity corresponded with periods of warmth on Earth and that periods of low solar activity likewise correspond with periods of wet, cool weather.
it is hardly surprising to find that the proportions of the human body correspond with the mathematical proportions of the planetary orbits ...