in common with

idiom

formal
: the same as : like
The town, in common with others in the region, depends on the tourism industry.

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Two anime fans in New Delhi and São Paolo might have more in common with each other than their next-door neighbors. Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 In plain English, a poor white neighborhood and a poor Black neighborhood have more in common with each other than either does with a wealthy neighborhood. Darvio Morrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025 Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who designed the October 7th operations, in this sense bore more in common with the Fatah of old than with the Muslim Brotherhood of today. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Many people can’t – or won’t – recall how bad California’s housing market was in the 1990s, a real estate slump that had plenty in common with the current economy. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in common with

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“In common with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20common%20with. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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