very same

idiom

: exact same
I told the very same story.

Examples of very same in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some of the very same chemical properties that make PFAS attractive in products also mean these chemicals will persist in the environment for generations. Kathryn Crawford, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2024 The song did have some immediate fans, though: kids, the very same audience Ms. Siwa was intending to abandon. Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024 But some of those techniques were first developed in order to tackle this very same problem. Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2024 But the very same mascara-streaked moments that have made for ratings gold have come under fire. Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024 On the very same day of the airstrikes which killed the aid workers, the Biden administration reportedly signed off on shipment of thousands more bombs to Israel, an attack that has drawn outrage around the world. Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024 Williams’s was the last lynching recorded in Salisbury; the body of a Black middle-aged man that has never been identified was found beaten to death that very same night. Joe Heim, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024 Both artists from the cooperative saw a bitter irony in Soho House’s efforts to position itself as a creative space, given that many artists in the city would be unable to afford it — not to mention those who had already been forced out of the very same building. Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024 Our newspaper used to publish mug shots of people who had been arrested, and a lady was wearing that very same unique necklace in her arrest photo. Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

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“Very same.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/very%20same. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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