ON THE ORDER OF Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

on the order of

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as in similar

having qualities in common They traveled something on the order of 1,000 miles before reaching Yosemite.

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Recent Examples of on the order of However, in reality, the number of collisions is expected to be on the order of several billion per second and will produce so much data that scientists won’t even be able to store it. —

Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026

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“On the order of.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/on%20the%20order%20of. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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