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

Fermin was removed from Sunday’s 9-3 victory over the Orioles before the bottom of the sixth inning, at the same time as shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who was also hit in the head by a baseball. —Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2026

The game followed the same script as all the others in the series, with the Spurs taking a double-digit lead in the first quarter and then frittering most of it away in the second quarter. —Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026

Rotation stays the same For those on Justė Jocytė watch, there was no action to see. —Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 13 June 2026

Now imagine taking three colors—say red, blue and green—and coloring each point on each triangle such that no two adjacent points are the same color. —Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026

Rhymes for the same

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