as in similarity
a point which two or more things share in common
one commonality between the two very different women is their passion for charity work
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Recent Examples of commonality
The one commonality across the menu is comfort.
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Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Similarities with the military While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities with military families in which one member is an active service member.
—Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The result is an immersive, urgent, playful, and devastating film that, while experimenting with genre and time, finds surprising commonalities between Brazil 50 years ago and the world today.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Disagreements among the group’s key members, such as a long-running border dispute between China and India, have tended to outweigh their areas of commonality.
—Jeffrey Prescott, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2025
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Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Similarities with the military While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities with military families in which one member is an active service member.
—Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The result is an immersive, urgent, playful, and devastating film that, while experimenting with genre and time, finds surprising commonalities between Brazil 50 years ago and the world today.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Disagreements among the group’s key members, such as a long-running border dispute between China and India, have tended to outweigh their areas of commonality.
—Jeffrey Prescott, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commonality
Noun
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The similarities and the differences between England and Australia are nothing new.—
Darren Richman,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Despite some similarities and speculation, the new comet likely originated from our solar system's Oort Cloud and is not directly connected to 3I/ATLAS.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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That Bezos up on stage bore a strong resemblance to the one who attended high school in Miami.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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First, the aircraft’s fuselage emerged from inside a specialized cargo plane, known as an Airbus Beluga because of its resemblance to beluga whales.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Commonality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonality. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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