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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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This translates to hiring for social comfort and sameness instead of the skills that actually drive results.
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Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
To the untrained eye, there’s a dull sameness to East Lancaster Avenue.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
His being here—scraping, sanding, painting, sitting across the table from us for dinner most nights—had been one of the joys of the past few weeks, a way of staving off the tension of moving and the sameness of the routine with the kids and the meals and the bedtime stories and all the rest.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
That would leave less room for new filmic voices and engender frictionless pushback against the kind of corporate groupthink responsible for the boring sameness behind our current multiplex malaise.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
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Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
To the untrained eye, there’s a dull sameness to East Lancaster Avenue.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
His being here—scraping, sanding, painting, sitting across the table from us for dinner most nights—had been one of the joys of the past few weeks, a way of staving off the tension of moving and the sameness of the routine with the kids and the meals and the bedtime stories and all the rest.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
That would leave less room for new filmic voices and engender frictionless pushback against the kind of corporate groupthink responsible for the boring sameness behind our current multiplex malaise.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sameness
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“Sameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sameness. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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