How to Use very same in a Sentence

very same

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  • The Democrats in the Senate can do the very same thing.
    ABC News, 14 May 2023
  • And the full rights of citizenship in the state should be, and are, the very same for Arabs as for Jews.
    Avi Shafran, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Starmer has his critics in the party — for the very same reason.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • And some of these very same folks who want to help Israel, but then want to walk away from Ukraine?
    CBS News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Well, that very same attorney and a friend each chipped in $600.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The West Bank and Gaza are subjected to the very same exercise.
    CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • This is the same record of success these very same leaders have lauded all along.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The very same tactic that draws their fans ensnares their critics.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • On the very same red carpet, Zendaya made a splash in an archival Mugler robot suit with cutouts on the breasts and butt cheeks.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • First, though, the series skips ahead to 2023, where a different young woman rides the subway to the very same office.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Because these very same talented people can go across the street and make twice as much.
    Alana Semuels, TIME, 28 Apr. 2024
  • That’s because the very same skills that are valued on the pitch are also highly desirable in the c-suite.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • But the very same mascara-streaked moments that have made for ratings gold have come under fire.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The Walkers have been in the coffee business since 2017 pursuing the very same mission.
    Hannah Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The very same family that fed me, the patriarch of the family is a pastor.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • But the frenzy may feed into the very same culture of consumption some people use it to solve for.
    Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But not until after Lipa got the very same tattoo first.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Maybe that’s why there are countless other videos of creators raving about the very same product.
    Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The planet’s two most active glaciers—Thwaites and Pine Island—terminate in the very same bay.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • And that his legal team should hide or destroy those very same documents.
    ABC News, 11 June 2023
  • So this very same case could return to the Supreme Court in a year or two, forcing the justices to, at the very least, determine if these red states have standing.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 13 June 2024
  • The very same folks who may soon be on strike if their negotiations go badly.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • According to a new study of downtown Chicago, underground hotspots may threaten the very same structures that emit the heat in the first place.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 July 2023
  • On the very same day, her little sister Kylie posed for a selfie on Instagram in the silver version.
    Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Two former college baseball teammates became fathers on the very same day to their own sets of boy/girl twins!
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
  • In fact, my 9-year-old son was on his daily group Facetime with his friends over their Thanksgiving break when one of his classmates Googled the very same thing.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
  • At the very same time, however, a flurry of extreme weather events were battering the globe.
    David Gelles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • On the very same day, Sergey Surovikin, a high-ranking Russian general who was seen as close to Prigozhin and may even have aided the mutiny, was removed from his post.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Now, some 55 years later, the owners have transformed that very same lodge into a contemporary stay called The Grand Lodge.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But one of them suddenly disappears, and a strange phenomenon occurs at the very same time.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024

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