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as in similarity
the state of being exactly alike
although the covers of the two paperback editions of the novel are different, there's a complete identity in the texts
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as in personality
the set of qualities that make a person different from other people
children begin to form their own identity by the age of two
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Recent Examples of identity
McGuffey sued her boss, claiming she was fired for raising concerns about the use of force and her identity as a gay woman.
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Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
The Republic is not naming the juvenile’s grandfather to protect the identity of the 16-year-old.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
The House races also provide the opportunity for other minority identities to become represented in Congress for the first time, particularly among women.
—Emily Chang, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
The remaining 14 states and Washington, D.C. use other means to verify the identity of voters.
—Patrick Maguire, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
The Republic is not naming the juvenile’s grandfather to protect the identity of the 16-year-old.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
The House races also provide the opportunity for other minority identities to become represented in Congress for the first time, particularly among women.
—Emily Chang, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
The remaining 14 states and Washington, D.C. use other means to verify the identity of voters.
—Patrick Maguire, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for identity
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When asked about the similarity between the two sums, Awuah-Darko tells me in an email that perhaps Wiley was behind Sakyiamah’s suit.Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Related article Archaeologists unearth tiny 3,500-year-old clay tablet following an earthquake A study detailing the similarities was published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Step into the spotlight and let your dynamic personality inspire others to see the possibilities.Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Using the Concise function on highlighted text to boil it down strips out too much personality, while the Friendly function gets too wordy and often misses the sentence's or paragraph's original point.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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His character, Callum Drift, is definitely the head of an organization called ELF, which stands for Enforcement, Logistics, and Fortification (there are multiple cute little acronyms like that in this movie), and which is basically the North Pole’s answer to the Secret Service.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Some of these data collections, such as character sheets, are for your reference only.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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Online, suspicion was often aimed at the victims’ family members as well as unaffiliated Delphi residents and men across the US — anyone and everyone who bore a passing resemblance to the sketch.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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Even if they are not inspired by ballot parties, the get-togethers bear an uncanny resemblance to them.Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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There is a dreary sameness to so much of modern culture, rough edges smoothed into comfortable averages by the power of market research and algorithms.Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2024
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The rooms are lit, often top-down, with a monotonous sameness that reminds of a musty nursing home where lamps operate on automatic timers.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
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In defining these mystical experiences — a task akin to pinning a Flubber tail on a cosmically large donkey — the Hopkins team drew on the work of Walter Stace, an English philosopher who argued that this melding sense of oneness with the universe is the classic mystical experience.Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024
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There is no person, no moment, no experience, devoid of the all-pervasive oneness of the Ribbono shel Olam.Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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That unattainable homogeneity is part of Putin’s rhetoric, claiming that there’s no discernable Ukrainian culture.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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The basic ideological homogeneity of the press corps isn’t some secret that’s tightly guarded by journalists or even the people who run news organizations.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Identity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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