the same
noun
1
: someone or something that is exactly like another person or thing being discussed or referred to
He ordered the salmon, and I had the same.
All of your classmates have begun their projects, and I suggest you do the same.
The band's last album was a bunch of bubble-gum pop, and their new release is just more of the same.
2
: exactly like each other or very similar to each other
The lunch specials are always the same.
No two fingerprints are ever the same.
3
: someone or something that has not changed : something that is exactly like it was at an earlier time
After the accident, he was never quite the same again.
Things would never be the same without you!
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PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
Every option comes with the same 95-gallon recycling and organic-waste bins.
—Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
International undergraduate enrollment stayed the same, with a slight increase in international freshmen, Miner said.
—David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2025
Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
Every option comes with the same 95-gallon recycling and organic-waste bins.
—Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
International undergraduate enrollment stayed the same, with a slight increase in international freshmen, Miner said.
—David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2025
Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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“The same.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20same. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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