very same

idiom

: exact same
I told the very same story.

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Musk rejected the notion that there’s an obvious conflict of interest between his work in government while also leading companies that have billions of dollars in business with that very same government. Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 20 May 2025 The hardest hit are working people and families already grappling with health and economic disparities, the very same communities policymakers should be fighting to uplift — not abandon. Lexi White, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2025 But that very same thermal background noise, the researchers realized, would spontaneously generate electromagnetic waves that could theoretically be amplified. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2025 President Trump nominated Martin to run the office that prosecuted more than 1,500 Capitol defendants, although Martin previously worked to defend some of those very same people. Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for very same

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“Very same.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/very%20same. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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