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as in monotony
a tedious lack of variety
the endless sameness of what we keep having for dinner is starting to bore me
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as in identity
the state of being exactly alike
the sameness of the two essays made the teacher immediately suspect plagiarism
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as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
the striking sameness of the results for both experiments suggests that this is a real discovery
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Recent Examples of sameness
But in a market where so many products seem to be converging into a sea of sameness, Black Crows boldly chooses to stand out on its own.
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Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
The cowboy side is my Texan side, my side that loves comfort and sameness and community and feeling at home.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
In some ways, Bequia remains a secret, and as such, it hasn’t been overly developed, commercialised or smoothed into sameness.
—Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
Sadly, automation and AI reward conformity and sameness, qualities that can produce consistency but never greatness.
—Chris Tomlinson, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2026
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Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
The cowboy side is my Texan side, my side that loves comfort and sameness and community and feeling at home.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
In some ways, Bequia remains a secret, and as such, it hasn’t been overly developed, commercialised or smoothed into sameness.
—Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
Sadly, automation and AI reward conformity and sameness, qualities that can produce consistency but never greatness.
—Chris Tomlinson, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sameness
Noun
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That’s why workouts like Monday morning’s help to break up the monotony.—
Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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But that monotony is the status quo in Chicago.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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This goes back to the idea of limitations becoming part of the film’s identity.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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His ability to write about love, loss and identity resonated with an enormous audience, making Hollywood, Ending one of the most anticipated fiction releases of the year.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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Translation, too, is a practice of uneven equivalences.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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His disturbing and bloody rhetoric created a twisted equivalence between violent crime and immigrants, most of whom come here to work, raise families and contribute to our population growth and economy.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
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The design was inspired by the hair-tearing boredom of COVID lockdown-era remote work, a time in which Knafs founder Ben Petersen maintained sanity during Zoom calls by fidgeting around with pocket knives and doodling pictures.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Mar. 2026
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Throughout all of human history, boredom was just part of life.—
Arthur C. Brooks
March 22,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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However, the similarities to previous hypersonic trials suggest a continuation of ongoing test activity tied to the Dark Eagle program.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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These companies shared striking similarities.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Collegiate Consulting study focuses largely on branding and visibility through a metric known as advertising value equivalency (AVE), which measures how much advertising would cost with equivalent exposure.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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In their minds, there’s an equivalency, but there really isn’t.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Amore approaches the song with all the vocal ferocity of a wind chime; MORI’s chorus repeats the title phrase in monotone.—
E.R. Pulgar,
Pitchfork,
10 Mar. 2026
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Here is an echoey and relatively quiet limestone room full of people — Mondragon’s deep laconic monotone would attract attention in a second.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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The relatively stagnant population and the preponderance of people living and working in subsistence agriculture meant that the desperately poor preindustrial world was also one of relative economic equality between societies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Calhoun blazed trails for women journalists at a time when newsroom equality was rare, and women’s voices were often shut out of news media.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Sameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sameness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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