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in common

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common adj.
alike adv.
jointly adv.

ADJECTIVE

common

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accepted popular prevailing prevalent shared universal

STRONG

collective community constant correspondent general generic joint like public reciprocal social

WEAK

coincident communal communistic commutual congruous conjoint conjunct corporate customary intermutual mutual socialistic united usual well-known widespread

Antonyms

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uncommon

STRONG

individual particular private separate singular specific

WEAK

abnormal aristocratic cultured excellent extraordinary high infrequent noble noteworthy rare refined scarce sophisticated superior unusual valuable

ADVERB

alike

Synonyms

STRONGEST

likewise

WEAK

analogously comparably comparatively consonantly correspondingly equally equivalently evenly identically in accordance with in the same degree in the same manner similarly the same way uniformly

Antonyms

WEAK

differently dissimilarly unequally unevenly

ADVERB

jointly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accordingly collectively cooperatively in tandem mutually simultaneously together unitedly

STRONG

conjointly

WEAK

agreeably alike arm in arm coincidentally combined companionably concomitantly concurrently connectedly en masse hand in glove hand in hand harmoniously in a group in company with in concert in conjunction in league in partnership in unison inextricably inseparably intimately reciprocally side by side similarly synchronically with one another

Antonyms

WEAK

singly

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in common

A human, an octopus, and a coral may appear to have almost nothing in common, but their chromosomes still contain recognizable fragments inherited from an animal ancestor that lived more than 600 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

"When that is the focus, there's more that we have in common than we have that separates us," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

One wouldn’t think these two disparate institutions would have much in common.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

“And there are some things that we have in common, and maybe some things you differ on, just like any issues, and I think it’s how you handle things.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Maybe they didn’t have all that much in common, aside from being lizards who were born in the same nursery.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

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