1
as in identical
resembling another in every respect
I bought the same shirt at the mall for five dollars less
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2
as in very
being one and not another
that's the same guy I saw down at the beach yesterday
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Recent Examples of same
Those same principles are essential to creating climate solutions that work for everyone.
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Isabella Montealegre,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2026
Whipple’s complaints about KNEA run along those same lines.
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Chance Swaim,
Kansas City Star,
28 June 2026
That same willingness to step in wherever needed became the hallmark of her career.
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Arkansas Online,
28 June 2026
The president attending lunch on Capitol Hill that same day with Senate Republicans, reportedly getting into a shouting match with Senator Bill Cassidy over support for the war in Iran.
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NBC news,
28 June 2026
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Isabella Montealegre,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2026
Whipple’s complaints about KNEA run along those same lines.
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Chance Swaim,
Kansas City Star,
28 June 2026
That same willingness to step in wherever needed became the hallmark of her career.
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Arkansas Online,
28 June 2026
The president attending lunch on Capitol Hill that same day with Senate Republicans, reportedly getting into a shouting match with Senator Bill Cassidy over support for the war in Iran.
—
NBC news,
28 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for same
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The lineup is essentially identical to that of the nation's game against Croatia on Tuesday.
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An employee running fifty unchecked queries looks identical, on a dashboard, to one running five after working the problem first.
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Meneghetti invites guests to slow down, relax, be present in their surroundings, and experience something genuine and understated rather than staged—the very essence of Istria.
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Becoming synonymous with the very idea of the dictionary wasn’t by any means a given for Webster.
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The arrests come a few weeks after 12 men were taken into custody in a similar sting operation in Miami-Dade.
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The Boyle Heights blaze, similar to the Eaton and Palisades fires, has revealed the region’s air monitoring can’t always tell people what they’ve been exposed to in a disaster.
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Through facilitated forums and advisory ecosystems, the organization builds environments where owners can test ideas, evaluate risk, and gain perspective from peers navigating comparable pressures.
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Winner may not substitute, assign or transfer Prize or redeem Prize for cash, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute Prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value.
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To some investors, the current moment is analogous to the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s.
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The four-year ban is analogous with the maximum punishment for intentional doping.
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“Same.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/same. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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