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
Three days after the disaster, American teams have yet to be deployed to the quake zone -- a marked contrast with other similar catastrophes, when U.S. personnel were on the ground within hours.
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Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
The bill got a favorable 11-2 vote in the committee, and a similar bill (SPB 2510) is making its way through the Senate.
—Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Thousands of families in San Diego face similar challenges.
—Chéri Pierre, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Sacramento Kings coach Doug Christie recently expressed similar thoughts, saying Phoenix’s star power makes the Suns impossible to ignore.
—Doug Haller, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
The bill got a favorable 11-2 vote in the committee, and a similar bill (SPB 2510) is making its way through the Senate.
—Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Thousands of families in San Diego face similar challenges.
—Chéri Pierre, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Sacramento Kings coach Doug Christie recently expressed similar thoughts, saying Phoenix’s star power makes the Suns impossible to ignore.
—Doug Haller, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for similar
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The most far-reaching version of Trump’s strategy would raise the effective, or average, tariff on U.S. imports to about 20%, comparable to the heavy import duties the nation imposed in the 1930s and that contributed to the Great Depression, Zandi said.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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There are several solutions Baltimore could implement immediately to fix its open records process, like creating an online request center comparable to most other large cities.—
John Hart,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2025
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In Pachter’s comparison, mobile games are analogous to McDonald’s, while Nintendo is the steakhouse.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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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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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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And while my four rides in Waymo's Jaguar i-Pace vehicles around Los Angeles last summer didn't feature any such fits of indecisiveness, the cars have had their own confused moments.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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There is no such ban in UEFA competitions or domestically in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands or Belgium.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Similar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/similar. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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