similarity

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Last week Vance even joked about the similarity himself, when asked about reports that Trump has been polling within the Republican party on whether they prefer Vance or Rubio.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

"What we've done here is we've compared these drawings to Anne Boleyn's first cousins and to her daughter Elizabeth to look for the family similarity and geometry and they cluster," Davies explains.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

“I see that similarity in basketball. It’s always pulled me knowing you have to be good at everything instead of one particular skill.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

However, their chemical similarity to certain plastics makes them difficult to distinguish in lab analyses, increasing the risk of false positives when studying microplastic pollution.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

He was one of those struck by the similarity in shape between the facing coastlines of Africa and South America, and from this observation he developed the idea that the continents had once slid around.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson