📂Academic Writing

Consistent with, agree with

Vocabulary

• consistent with: an idiom meaning ’to match’, where consistent is not used in the sense of ‘coherent’.
• agree with: means ’to match’, where agree is not used in the sense of ’to consent'.

Examples

consistent with

“Figure 2 shows the bifurcation diagram from the predicted Hénon map, which matches the original diagram remarkably well.”

“Figure 2 shows the bifurcation diagram from the predicted Hénon map, which is impressively consistent with the original diagram.” ¹

agree with

“This matches the original bifurcation diagram so well that all possible critical bifurcation points can be predicted accurately from the time series alone.”

“These agree with the original bifurcation diagrams extremely well, so that all possible critical bifurcation points can be predicted accurately based on time series only.” ¹