as in similarity
a point which two or more things share in common one commonality between the two very different women is their passion for charity work

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Recent Examples of commonality At the start of her career, during the ’60s, her spare paintings seemed to share commonalities with works by Dan Flavin and Sol Lewitt, leading sculptors of the Minimalist movement. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 22 Jan. 2025 But one commonality stands among them -- there is a point where behavior change becomes permanent. Matt Parrott, arkansasonline.com, 19 Jan. 2025 Collier has an eye-popping 28 bad-pass turnovers in his 368 minutes, according to Basketball-Reference.com, and several of them share this commonality. John Hollinger, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024 The New Orleans attack also shares commonalities with recent domestic terror attacks in the United States and overseas. Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for commonality 

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“Commonality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonality. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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