not dissimilar

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: not different : similar

A not dissimilar situation has occurred overseas.

The question is not dissimilar to one asked earlier.

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Deadlock is a third-person MOBA with gameplay that's not dissimilar from DOTA 2. —

Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024 The 2024 iteration of the program is far from perfect, but their situation is not dissimilar from the 1996 team's. —

Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024 This idea is not dissimilar from the vision articulated by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the conservative policy proposal to reshape the federal government in a second Trump administration. —

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024 And really, that’s not dissimilar to how people think of magic in cultures around the world—this kind of amorphous thing that can change the way someone acts or feels. —

Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for not dissimilar

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