side by side
adverb
1
: beside one another
walking side by side
2
: in the same place, time, or circumstance
lived peacefully side by side for many years
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The search to understand love would continue, this time side by side.
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Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
Editors sampled the sauces side by side, scoring them on taste, texture, and overall experience using a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
Paige Bueckers and Geno Auriemma had traveled side by side, every mile of a long, rough road.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
DeWitt has constructed not a maze so much as a garden, where many kinds of writing can thrive side by side.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
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Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
Editors sampled the sauces side by side, scoring them on taste, texture, and overall experience using a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
Paige Bueckers and Geno Auriemma had traveled side by side, every mile of a long, rough road.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
DeWitt has constructed not a maze so much as a garden, where many kinds of writing can thrive side by side.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for side by side
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“Side by side.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/side%20by%20side. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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