two sides of the same coin
idiom
: two things that are regarded as two parts of the same thing
These problems may seem unrelated but they are really two sides of the same coin.
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View the economy and security as two sides of the same coin
Increasingly, the same technologies that support strong economic growth also underpin modern defense and security solutions.
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Pekka Lundmark, Fortune Europe, 16 July 2024
By way of this elegant framing, Riegel sets Dandelion and Doherty’s Casey up as two sides of the same coin, a concept her script will pull into surprising directions throughout its somewhat meandering running time.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
Swallowing something and being swallowed are two sides of the same coin.
—Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
In essence, the powerful binding energy that the strong force exerts to bind quarks together contributes almost all of the mass (remember, Albert Einstein revealed that energy and mass are two sides of the same coin).
—Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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Pekka Lundmark, Fortune Europe, 16 July 2024
By way of this elegant framing, Riegel sets Dandelion and Doherty’s Casey up as two sides of the same coin, a concept her script will pull into surprising directions throughout its somewhat meandering running time.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
Swallowing something and being swallowed are two sides of the same coin.
—Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
In essence, the powerful binding energy that the strong force exerts to bind quarks together contributes almost all of the mass (remember, Albert Einstein revealed that energy and mass are two sides of the same coin).
—Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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