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similar

If two things are similar, they are almost the same, or the same in many, but not all, ways. Canadian English is similar to American English, but there are some small differences in pronunciation, and spelling. My sister and I have very similar ideas. If two shapes are similar, they have the same shape, but might be different sizes. These two triangles are similar because they have the same angles, but they are not congruent because one is bigger than the other.

similar

marked by correspondence or resemblance similar food at similar prices problems similar to mine they wore similar coats (= alike) having the same or similar characteristics all politicians are alike they looked utterly alike friends are generally alike in background and taste (of words) expressing closely related meanings (= like) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination suits of like design a limited circle of like minds members of the cat family have like dispositions as like as two peas in a pod doglike devotion a dreamlike quality (= interchangeable) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability interchangeable electric outlets interchangeable parts

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Simple sentences

I acted to protect myself from a similar destiny.
During the 60s and 70s, similar events occurred in Europe, although on a lesser scale.
I had a similar incident.
Your problem is similar to mine.
Your bicycle is similar to mine.
Your watch is similar to mine in shape and color.
Your idea seems to be similar to mine.
Gold is similar in color to brass.
In a similar situation, the company was held liable.
Pepperberg hoped that a similar system would help Alex grasp the meaning of words, not just their sounds.
The climate of New Zealand is similar to that of Japan.
It was similar in some ways to soccer which is played today.
I remember hearing a very similar story to that.
Those two experiments yielded similar results.
This watch is similar to mine I lost yesterday.
Your opinion is similar to mine.

Movie subtitles

She probably thinks I just look similar.
Question - could something similar happen to Western civilization 2.0 - the version that, after a millennium of stagnation, rose to dominate the world?
And if a distant world has similar conditions, there's at least a possibility life could emerge there, too.
What amazes me is that scientists are finding life aplenty in environments similar to that, and that just goes to show that life can flourish in even the harshest conditions.
Titan's atmosphere and surface features are similar to Earth's 3.5 billion years ago.
Over hundreds of millions of years, all the creatures of our planet have adapted to their environment, so the chemistries are similar, which means your genetic makeup isn't all that different from an earthworm, or even your pet.
Well, if we think in that way, you are also similar to them as you aren't interested in anything about the world, Young Master.
Thinking about it, her appearance is similar to what people say about a gumiho!
And is it possible it was in a casket that was similar to Declan's?
Yeah, as a matter of fact it was - very similar.
Ray Neilson, Neil Bloom and two others of similar height and build.
Under no circumstances will we ever stand by while a nation builds Metal Gears or similar weapons.
When I was a little boy, a similar accident happened nearby.
And unless I'm mistaken, we were both on a similar mission.
I am sitting next to a photographic telescope very similar to the one used by David Gill.
Very similar to what we knew from extragalactic spiral nebulae.
He processed his data in a similar way as had been done by us in our surveys.
You're actually more similar to us than you realize.
Could you please organize a similar party? This time is for Lora's wife.
But fairness and consideration for his friends would call him for caution, he ought to think it over and discuss it and similar catchphrases.
He is dramatically pointed up by a series of three successively closer shots, similar to Whale's introduction of Frankenstein's monster, played by Boris Karloff in the 1931 production of Frankenstein.
We think of such characterisations as the crazed Renfield in Dracula, as the hunchback Fritz, Frankenstein's loony assistant in the 1931 Frankenstein and a similar role in Bride of Frankenstein.
Yes, my nephew has similar ideas.
IT IS BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. IT DESCRIBES MANY SIMILAR CASES THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE WAR IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, LIKE FRANCE, GERMANY OR ITALY.
I am picking up a similar case at the next station, but more complicated.
You've never been caught in a similar situation?
Our hair is cut alike and even the shape of our beards is somewhat similar.
Here's Mme de Beauperthuis' address. She bought a similar hat.
Tell him I'm on the trail of something similar.
Why, I thought it was similar to a balance sheet, but not exactly.
Why, in this institution alone, three little girls were admitted at precisely the same time under circumstances similar to.
Not similar. Exactly alike.
The situation is very similar.
So Colliander has written a similar one?
It's a glucoside similar in action to digitalis but much more toxic.
But. could you refuse the soldier who saved your father's life four times some roubles so that he could buy himself a similar cuckoo clock?
Could it be that he's the same person about whom we've had similar complaints during the past week?
For the man who's committed a whole chain of similar crimes during the last two years.

News and current affairs

Similar demands were heard all over Europe, where the anti-Nazi or anti-fascist resistance was often led by leftists, or indeed Communists, and prewar conservatives were frequently tainted by collaboration with fascist regimes.
In Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair supported the US attitude entirely, the government introduced similar measures and even offered a new theory.
This spring, the WHO released a report that recommends solutions similar to those proposed in the US Senate bill, but on a global level.
I am aware that Judge Goldstone, a dedicated and unimpeachable human rights lawyer and advocate, shared similar concerns when he was initially approached.
Similar flexibility exists with the Euro, the Schengen Agreement, and the Social Chapter.
Other feedback loops pose a similar danger.
There are many other similar commitments that the US has made in recent years to the UN that remain utterly unfulfilled.
European authorities are caught up in a similar mindset.
Neighbors that used to be transit states for drugs are now major consumers, owing to similar dramatic increases in opium and heroin addiction.
But many ideological hawks are secular nationalists, and their jargon is similar to that of typical Central and Eastern European nationalists.
Here, soccer parallels today's globalized markets, which make similar restructuring of national economies necessary.
The world must fervently hope that the Turkish proposal for a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform is more serious and sustained than previous similar efforts.
Greenspan mounts a similar defense concerning the housing bubble.
His comments infuriated London's provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics scholar and author, who shot back that Clooney's position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
But there was no evidence that the more widely dispersed ash blowing over Europe from Iceland would cause similar problems.
Growth driven by high commodity prices is also susceptible to busts, for similar reasons. Commodity prices tend to move in cycles.
But, just as the post-Kobe rebuilding did little to end the first of Japan's lost decades, a similar outcome can be expected this time.
The countries that faced similar problems in other parts of the world always combined fiscal contractions with currency devaluations, which membership in a monetary union rules out.
The trends are similar elsewhere in Europe.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.
And yet the authorities clearly believe that they had to make an example of him, to prevent others from expressing similar views.

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