as in comparable
having qualities in common
the two actresses accidentally wore similar outfits to the same gala
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Recent Examples of similar
The death followed an outbreak of the highly contagious disease in West Texas; a similar outbreak has been recorded in New Mexico and cases have surfaced in other states including California, New York, and Oklahoma.
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Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
The company was formed to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2025
The questionnaire appears to be very similar to one sent earlier this week to partners of the United States Agency for International Development, which has been all but dismantled by the Trump administration.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2025
In some ways, this feels similar to the initial boom and subsequent contraction of the sports betting and ancillary sports betting content industries, a trajectory that began with a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a federal law banning sports betting in most states.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
The company was formed to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2025
The questionnaire appears to be very similar to one sent earlier this week to partners of the United States Agency for International Development, which has been all but dismantled by the Trump administration.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2025
In some ways, this feels similar to the initial boom and subsequent contraction of the sports betting and ancillary sports betting content industries, a trajectory that began with a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a federal law banning sports betting in most states.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for similar
Adjective
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The Rio Outdoor Teak Sofa costs $1,999, a price comparable to similar retailers like Pottery Barn and Ballard Designs.—
Stewart Savin,
Architectural Digest,
21 Mar. 2025
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This blood test has an accuracy rate comparable to that of stool tests.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The league maintains the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Third, Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits have held that consumers in analogous situations to Salazar suffered no concrete harm when the transmission was non-public.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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Nothing in the founding-era legal landscape is analogous to the challenged law.—
Dara Kam,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Adaptability Is Key No two performances are alike because no two audiences are alike.—
Dr. Jen Donnell,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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There were also the Trump women, looking all alike onstage in Farrah Fawcett–style blonde hairdos with a little flip at the end.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
17 Aug. 2024
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Here was the fruit of someone else’s obsessions, and this was part of the why: art could bring such rejoicing.—
Coke Bartrina,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2025
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In some jurisdictions, like California, the use of such cameras is not considered a violation of state laws.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Similar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/similar. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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