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: the quality or state of being the same : identity, similarity
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Examples of sameness in a Sentence
the sameness of the two methods
There is a sameness to his stories that makes them too predictable.
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Given the sheer amount of combat in each game, there can be a feeling of sameness that pervades over time.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Behind them, the desert is punctuated by barracks, a landscape of depressing sameness.
—Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Even the physical world is rendered with modest sameness everywhere by Google Maps and its humbling Street View.
—Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
But, as a result, it’s made banking impersonal and created a sea of sameness as banks become less differentiated and lose the human connection fostered at the branch level.
—Michael Abbott, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Behind them, the desert is punctuated by barracks, a landscape of depressing sameness.
—Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Even the physical world is rendered with modest sameness everywhere by Google Maps and its humbling Street View.
—Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
But, as a result, it’s made banking impersonal and created a sea of sameness as banks become less differentiated and lose the human connection fostered at the branch level.
—Michael Abbott, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Sameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sameness. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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