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: the quality or state of being the same : identity, similarity
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Examples of sameness in a Sentence
the sameness of the two methods
There is a sameness to his stories that makes them too predictable.
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 19 June 2025
If there’s a certain sameness to many medical memoirs—first baby delivered, first death, first resuscitation, first recognition that medicine cannot always cure—that doesn’t necessarily detract from readers’ fascination.
—Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
There was a dreadful sameness to the team’s Game 5 blowout loss, yes, but the series isn’t over.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 May 2025
The emotional impact is so blunted that our only choice is to surrender to the booming spectacle of it all (Hans Zimmer, take the wheel), but even that proves difficult in a film that never quite solves how to handle the sameness of a 44-lap race.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 June 2025
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 19 June 2025
If there’s a certain sameness to many medical memoirs—first baby delivered, first death, first resuscitation, first recognition that medicine cannot always cure—that doesn’t necessarily detract from readers’ fascination.
—Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
There was a dreadful sameness to the team’s Game 5 blowout loss, yes, but the series isn’t over.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 May 2025
The emotional impact is so blunted that our only choice is to surrender to the booming spectacle of it all (Hans Zimmer, take the wheel), but even that proves difficult in a film that never quite solves how to handle the sameness of a 44-lap race.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for sameness
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“Sameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sameness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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