1
as in similarly
in like manner
we stayed at a historic London hotel, the same establishment that had also welcomed our grandparents many years ago
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2
as in then
in addition to what has been said
I'd like a motorcycle for my birthday; also, I'd like a new CD player
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Recent Examples of also
Known as knockers in England, kobolds also live in caves and mines and make knocking noises directing human miners where to dig.
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
In Week 9, UAB will face off against a UConn team that is also coming in riding plenty of momentum after beating Boston College on Saturday.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
The 11-year-old also had dried feces on his face, arms and hands, and underneath his fingernails, per the complaint.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
The Aggies also held the Razorbacks to a pair of 22-yard Scott Starzyk field goals that were sandwiched around a fourth-down stop at the Arkansas 49 early in the game.
—Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
In Week 9, UAB will face off against a UConn team that is also coming in riding plenty of momentum after beating Boston College on Saturday.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
The 11-year-old also had dried feces on his face, arms and hands, and underneath his fingernails, per the complaint.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
The Aggies also held the Razorbacks to a pair of 22-yard Scott Starzyk field goals that were sandwiched around a fourth-down stop at the Arkansas 49 early in the game.
—Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
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Rashida tells Pooro of a longstanding rivalry between their families—his aunt was similarly held captive by Pooro’s uncle.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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European security sources believe a similarly opaque system, involving front companies that are little more than fake numbers and billing addresses, has been used to keep the sodium perchlorate flowing to Iran.—
Melissa Bell,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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However, the demon baby then proceeded to brutally rip apart and kill Teddy, Phil, and Susie, leaving only Lilly and Ronnie alive before the credits rolled.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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Zettel then decided renting a hotel room for the night would be too expensive and let her daughter sleep in her car instead.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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His fiction, neither notably blood-soaked nor mythologically freighted, also differs starkly from the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, contemporaries who likewise were famously steeped in the West.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement In 1947, New Jersey joined this off-year-election group, likewise aiming to protect itself from federal trends, if quite different ones.—
Time,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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There aren't a ton of great options in free agency, though there may not be too many choices at all via trade either, as most teams have their starter and backup quarterbacks locked in and won't be looking to part with either at this point in the year.—
Max Dible,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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Purushotham argued that build versus buy is often not an either/or, though his team stays apprised of what Citi’s 30,000 software developers are working on.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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And, besides, all of the album’s aims converge under one roof.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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And besides, Milan would have to do the running.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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In addition to preserving natural ecosystems and the sustainable fisheries that depend on them, reefs may help to protect coastlines from storms and floods, which will become ever more urgent as climate change and rising sea levels give rise to more dangerous storms.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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For something more immersive, the resort brings in expert wellness practitioners for week-long retreats.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Also.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/also. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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