same

/seɪm/ adj [not gradable] (NOT ANOTHER)

Definition

› this one; not another, different one: She keeps saying the same thing over and over. Production is down by 80% from the same period last year. She started studying languages and became interested in travel at the same time.

(Definition of same adj (NOT ANOTHER) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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same adj EXACTLY LIKE
same adj NOT ANOTHER
same difference idiom
same here idiom
same pronoun EXACTLY ALIKE
sameness n
sample n

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same adj EXACTLY LIKE
same pronoun EXACTLY ALIKE
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at the same time idiom
in the same boat idiom
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