as in also
in like manner
regulations that are disapproved of by teachers and students alike
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as in like
having qualities in common
all the houses in the neighborhood are alike in that they all have a one-car garage and a fenced-in backyard
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Recent Examples of alike
Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
The first season focuses on Asia, where street food is a way of life and tourists and locals alike wait in long lines to try local specialties like Thai crab omelets and Japanese okonomiyaki.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 11 May 2025
Devorah Lev-Tov, TIME, 25 July 2024
Their cases seemed eerily alike to a lot of people, including Arelie’s sisters.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 16 July 2024
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Adverb
City cops turned a bad week into a bad month, beating down the peaceful and the lawless alike and volleying rubber bullets into crowds.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
The first season focuses on Asia, where street food is a way of life and tourists and locals alike wait in long lines to try local specialties like Thai crab omelets and Japanese okonomiyaki.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 11 May 2025
Adjective
Its 69 rooms and suites feature floor-to-ceiling windows and some have private landscaped terraces with wooden trellises sparkling with lights, but no two rooms are alike.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, TIME, 25 July 2024
Their cases seemed eerily alike to a lot of people, including Arelie’s sisters.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 16 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alike
Adverb
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Hang Nguyen, aka the Hang Edit, has also hopped on the fishy trend, though her take was more photorealistic.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
5 May 2025
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Ramon Cardenas: What Time Does The Fight Card Start? Many studies over the years have also shown the MMR vaccine to be quite safe.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
Adverb
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Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures’ A Minecraft Movie, the biggest blockbuster of 2025, so far, was mostly shot in New Zealand, with some production in Canada.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2025
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There still aren’t that many examples of bisexuality expressed so matter of factly.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Trapezoids in space All of these milestones occurred out of public view, a policy of secrecy similar to the launch of a clandestine military spy satellite.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
3 May 2025
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One editor felt the cake was similar to Angel Food cake, while two other editors compared the sweet, nutty aroma of the cake to cornbread.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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Through the first five weeks of the second quarter, Texas Roadhouse said its comparable sales at company restaurants increased 5% year over year.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
8 May 2025
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One that’s more demonstrable in the industry than other comparable examples of societal laziness.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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The work of flattening out three-dimensional sculpture into a two-dimensional painting was analogous to intellectualizing and abstracting Blackness as media became more mobile in the early twentieth century.—
Delinda Collier,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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Together, these provide a wealth of data that any neuroscientist would envy — analogous to a perfect map of a person’s brain, along with separate electrodes to monitor the activity of each neuron.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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During a hearing in March on Capitol Hill, senators called for stricter requirements for helicopters transiting the airspace near DCA, in addition to tighter restrictions on such traffic.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Anyone wanting to fight such usage would have to rely on deceptive practice laws, trademark and copyright protection, and state-specific laws protecting a person's name, image, and likeness.—
Neil J. Rubenking,
PC Magazine,
2 May 2025
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“Alike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alike. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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