in common with

idiom

formal
: the same as : like
The town, in common with others in the region, depends on the tourism industry.

Examples of in common with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And the ending of the movie is more rom-com than the book’s portrayal of the very real improbabilities of a 20-year-old boy-man having anything in common with a 40-year-old woman. Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024 Earlier in her conversation with Fallon, Doja revealed that the upcoming European leg of her Scarlet tour shares at least one element in common with her Coachella performance. Shania Russell, EW.com, 2 May 2024 Source: General Administration Department, Myanmar Some ethnic minorities have more in common with people in China, India and Thailand than with the Bamar, Myanmar’s largest ethnicity. Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024 Editors’ Picks One of his friends, Paul Ford, a writer, editor and tech entrepreneur, noted that Mr. Foster, the person, seems to have little in common with the media chronicler of Today in Tabs. Steven Kurutz Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024 State Senate Minority Leader Gerald Neal, the Louisville Democrat who’s been in office since 1989, has plenty in common with Attica Scott, the lone challenger for his seat in the May 21 primary election. The Courier-Journal, 17 Apr. 2024 What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Paul McCartney and Justin Bieber have in common with Ronald Reagan, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Fidel Castro and David Bowie? Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024 The living descendant, Samuel Walter Washington, who is the current owner of Harewood estate, turned out to have more DNA in common with the two deceased brothers than the researchers expected. Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024 In fact, Earth had more in common with Venus, a thick, toxic hothouse world, billions of years ago, according to a study published in Science Advances in 2020. Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024

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