the same

noun

: 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.

: exactly like each other or very similar to each other

The lunch specials are always the same.

No two fingerprints are ever the same.

: 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 At the same time, kids who spent more than three hours a day while not at school reading or looking at a screen close-up were four times more likely to have myopia than those who spent an hour or less doing so. —

Andrew Herbert, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2024 These two broods specifically have not emerged together in over 200 years, and will not emerge at the same time again until 2245. —

Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024 At the same time, changes to campaign-finance laws have greatly restricted contributions to both major parties, whose financial power once deterred unruly members from disruptive stunts like threatening to oust a congressional leader in the run-up to an election. —

David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2024 One driver rolled down his window to stick out his middle finger at the Chabad house while his passenger did the same toward the protestors in Dunn Meadow. —

The Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2024 The project tracks the true story of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in the segregated South who refused to give up her seat on the bus nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. —

Ben Croll, Variety, 27 Apr. 2024 While nobody wants to endure a hectic travel day in a pair of scratchy, overly tight pants, the same goes for an ill-fitting top. —

Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2024 There has to be ease and intention at the same time. —

Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024 How can somebody be successful and underrated at the same time? —

Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2024

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