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as in same
being one and not another
both families wanted the identical puppy and weren't accepting the argument that its littermates were just as good
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as in similar
resembling another in every respect
identical dresses whose only difference is a designer label that fetches a high price
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Recent Examples of identical
Assessment caps allow homeowners who purchased decades ago to pay taxes on homes well below current market values, while new buyers can face much larger bills for nearly identical homes.
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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
Even if the cells are notionally identical — both skin cells, say — exactly what the gene-regulatory machinery is up to at any moment is never quite the same in any two of them.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
An identical 12-round draft would be started for international prospects, a proposal the union has rejected in the past.
—Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
Ultimately, fairness doesn’t mean identical treatment.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 18 June 2026
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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
Even if the cells are notionally identical — both skin cells, say — exactly what the gene-regulatory machinery is up to at any moment is never quite the same in any two of them.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
An identical 12-round draft would be started for international prospects, a proposal the union has rejected in the past.
—Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
Ultimately, fairness doesn’t mean identical treatment.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 18 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical
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That same week, a 17-year-old was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, and handgun violations after injuring his 14-year-old relative in a shooting.—
CBS Baltimore Staff,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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The diagnosis became official later that same month after a biopsy confirmed stage 4 ALK-positive lung cancer, a rare subtype that accounts for less than 5% of lung cancer cases and is more commonly found in younger people and never-smokers.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Curaçao’s next opponent, Ecuador, faced a similar loss, falling short to Cote D’Ivoire in its first World Cup match.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
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McGeady’s career was not, in the nicest possible way, comparable to Ronaldinho, but the two-touch spin became his trademark and will be familiar to gamers, as well as to Celtic, Spartak Moscow, Everton and Sunderland fans.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Sources interviewed for this story said that broadly speaking, prices remain high for contemporary works, despite the fact that comparable works can often be found for considerably less at auction.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
15 June 2026
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Ali, who has been the series’ resident mentor, father figure, listening ear, voice of reason and confidant, transforms into what is most analogous to an action hero in a revenge plot.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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The force-carrying particles have an analogous distinction, known as a polarization state.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
15 June 2026
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Beauty, then, arises from the pain and struggle of experiencing oneself as a site of divine truancy, and ugly is that which pretends to be directly equivalent to the soul, God, etc.—
Esther Yi,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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Both sales and streams are included in the ranking's methodology, and according to Luminate, 35 Biggest Hits moved another 16,600 equivalent units in the tracking frame reflected on the current lists between those two consumption metrics.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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“Identical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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