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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
In a world of sameness, Living Rooms stands apart, not by being louder, but by being more considered.
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Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
This translates to hiring for social comfort and sameness instead of the skills that actually drive results.
—Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
To the untrained eye, there’s a dull sameness to East Lancaster Avenue.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
His being here—scraping, sanding, painting, sitting across the table from us for dinner most nights—had been one of the joys of the past few weeks, a way of staving off the tension of moving and the sameness of the routine with the kids and the meals and the bedtime stories and all the rest.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
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Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
This translates to hiring for social comfort and sameness instead of the skills that actually drive results.
—Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
To the untrained eye, there’s a dull sameness to East Lancaster Avenue.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
His being here—scraping, sanding, painting, sitting across the table from us for dinner most nights—had been one of the joys of the past few weeks, a way of staving off the tension of moving and the sameness of the routine with the kids and the meals and the bedtime stories and all the rest.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sameness
Noun
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Whatever the case, honesty and depth reign over comfort and monotony.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Zoom founder Eric Yuan even outsourced the monotony to an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar.—
Richard Torrenzano,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Far from the constructive ambiguity of the 1992 Consensus, Lai breathlessly argued that Taiwan and China are distinct, autonomous nations, drawing on historical, legal, and identity-based arguments linking the island’s heritage to Austronesian culture, rather than Chinese.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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This production focuses on the works of Ron Rash, an author deeply associated with the people, communities and issues of Appalachia; he is known to touch on such themes as displacement and change and the loss of cultural identity.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There can be no equivalences drawn between the two political extremes in this country, especially when one extreme is led by a man who rarely speaks without lying.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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That false equivalence, Sadeghi noted, is part of a broader retrieval problem.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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That at a certain point, the gooner will open his eyes, find himself in a room filled with lube but void of love, and decide that the boredom of staying in that room outweighs the fear of whatever lies beyond it.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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And yes, there were occasional hijinks spurred by youthful boredom and restlessness.—
Scott Huver,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The trio could be a modern take on Sex and the City, but their passions for fashion and raunchy recaps are where the similarities end.—
Lex Goldstein,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Due to their nutritional similarities, the choice between pumpkin and summer squash may come down to your personal taste preferences.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
21 Oct. 2025
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At first, though, there was little doubt in the North that there was no moral equivalency of cause with the South.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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As at many schools, CAMP at Millersville is also linked with programs that help migrant students earn their high school equivalency diplomas, known as HEP.—
Jordan Owens,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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These have been replaced by an endless monotone of heavy-handed highs.—
Jahan Marcu,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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In the quiet hush of the neonatal intensive care unit at Shahjahanpur Medical College, the only constant sound was the monotone of the heart monitor, its low hum keeping watch over the baby sleeping inside the sterile incubator.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, Takaichi appears unlikely to prioritize issues of gender equality.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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Progress toward gender equality has been slow in Japan, where women are far outnumbered at the highest levels of business and government and bear a disproportionate responsibility for child care and household chores.—
Arata Yamamoto,
NBC news,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Sameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sameness. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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