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!

Examples of the same in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Driving habits have noticeably deteriorated since the pandemic, said Plott, who has lived in the same home for more than 30 years. —Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026

UConn is the only school to win both men’s and women’s championships in the same year, achieving this in 2004 and ’14, and have now sent both schools to the Final Four, college basketball’s biggest marquee, for the sixth time. —Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026

For a Nets team that has watched too many games slip in the same way, the early minutes of the fourth carried a familiar warning. —C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026

The realization that many members did not have the same connection to Israel, and even sympathized with its critics, startled her. —Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for the same

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