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interchangeability

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Recent Examples of interchangeability The Cowboys could be a bit more fluid there with the interchangeability of certain players on the roster, but if the previous standard remains, there will be one final spot to fight for in training camp. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026 The agency also made interchangeability easier, enabling a patient and pharmacist swap an expensive biologic for its cheaper biosimilar equivalent, with less red tape. — Avik Roy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 Total football remade soccer worldwide by emphasizing movement and pressure on the ball and the interchangeability of positions, laying the groundwork for the modern incarnation of the sport. — Leander Schaerlaeckens june 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026 Cross is more of a box safety type than the other names, which would effectively lock both him and Bishop into respective roles without as much interchangeability as others. — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026 The demonstration, conducted during Exercise Talisman Sabre in July, marked the first time the UK and Australia showed interchangeability of XLUUVs as part of a single fighting force. — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025 This blurring of the line between street gangs and rock bands, the interchangeability of instruments made for the musician’s stage and for the warrior’s battlefield, is deliberate and meaningful. — Peter Ames Carlin, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interchangeability
  1. parallelism
  2. similarity
  3. resemblance
  4. compatibility
Noun
  • But is there some subtle parallelism between what’s happening right now in Silo 18 and what’s happening in the flashbacks?
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Two GB10s leverage a software technology called tensor parallelism to split, or shard, an AI model across both machines, harnessing them as a team to share the load and deliver results.
    — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of parallelism
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  • Later, detectives learned about a case with similarities in Fort Myers, in which a victim claimed a man who offered cash for nude photos had tied him to a tree and attempted to strangle him.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Vertical Drama Love’s Cooper and social media users have pointed to the visual similarities between characters in DramaWave’s The Rise of the Lycan Queen and DramaBox’s Deny Me, Dragon King and actor Henry Cavill’s character in The Witcher.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of similarity
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  • The stock has spent the last six months carving out a broad rounded bottom with some resemblance to an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Any resemblance between the TikTok series and the real-life version of Chairman Tom Ricketts meeting his wife, Cece, in the bleachers is purely coincidental, a Cubs source said.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of resemblance
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  • Meanwhile, older software companies have been keen to exhibit their compatibility with AI algorithms even as the new kid on the block threatens their turf.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Some products also include device-level firewall protection or cloud backup, but features, storage limits and compatibility can vary by platform.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of compatibility

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“Interchangeability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interchangeability. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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