very same

idiom

: exact same
I told the very same story.

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Many of their jobs are being coded away by those very same coders that just recently graduated. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 For example, the Mexican government declared war on the cartels in 2006 and tasked the military with prosecuting counter-drug operations, only to see those very same cartels get even more violent in their response. Daniel Depetris, Time, 24 Sep. 2025 Clickbait has flourished on social-media feeds, and in some cases—consider Meta AI or X’s Grok—chatbots are being built by the very same companies that power the social web. Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025 Hawke is splendid in the role, which makes deft use of his chatterbox charisma, the very same that can come off as annoying yet attractive in films like Reality Bites and the Before trilogy, or menacing in something like Black Phone. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for very same

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“Very same.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/very%20same. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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