adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a similar fate
▪ The project suffered a similar fate to many of its predecessors.
a similar point
▪ Kevin Phillips made a similar point in his 1993 book, ‘Boiling Point’.
a similar position
▪ You can ask to be put in contact with others in a similar position.
a similar sort
▪ It’s a similar sort of house.
broadly similar/comparable/equivalent etc
▪ We reached broadly similar conclusions.
find yourself in a similar/awkward etc position
▪ The refugee organizations now found themselves in a difficult position.
in the same vein/in a similar vein
▪ There was more humour, in much the same vein.
of such/this/similar etc magnitude
▪ We did not think the cuts would be of this magnitude.
same/similar/different
▪ Their tastes in movies were very different.
similar/the same
▪ We have similar musical tastes.
strikingly similar/different
▪ The two experiments produced strikingly different results.
the same/a similar pattern
▪ Each of the murders has followed a similar pattern.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
broadly
▪ Even countries with broadly similar cultures can differ in what they define as criminal.
▪ Their conclusions, however, were broadly similar: great inequality and great poverty were inevitable in the absence of great reform.
▪ When they work as agents for finance companies, their rates may be broadly similar though slightly higher.
▪ Both the president and the Republican Congress want to reverse that trend with broadly similar plans.
▪ There is an obvious danger of excessive duplication when broadly similar organizations conduct broadly similar campaigns.
▪ Different agencies use rather different versions of this, but they all look broadly similar.
▪ The subjects were broadly similar to those used in this study in terms of age and driving experience.
remarkably
▪ To my mind they are remarkably similar.
▪ By 8, an age when problems at school often emerge because of increased academic expectations, both groups were remarkably similar.
▪ The risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome within groups were remarkably similar.
▪ They were, he discovered, remarkably similar.
▪ Rowntree's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth.
▪ One is John McCain, the other is Ken Livingstone-and they are playing a remarkably similar game.
▪ For those aged over 65 the responses were remarkably similar for both males and females.
▪ The kinetic energy lost by a body of mass m rising through the same distance is remarkably similar:.
very
▪ This is very similar to the probit findings.
▪ Movie on-demand represented in this scenario is very similar in technology and characteristics to interactive games.
▪ This information about the theme is very similar to the thematic titles used by Dooling.
▪ When Challenger called by this morning, he described a scientific experiment to me of a very similar sort.
▪ A very similar species is the flying steamer duck.
▪ Section 23 is very similar in terms to the other sections in this Part.
▪ Male and female are very similar in appearance; the male is slightly larger, but the difference is usually imperceptible.
▪ Crucian carp are also very similar but goldfish have a less-deep body and a shorter dorsal fin.
■ NOUN
case
▪ Scaevola's case resembles Celsus'; and there is a similar case in Ulpian.
▪ A similar case in 1988 was resolved differently.
▪ Hundreds of similar cases waited in the wings.
▪ Brian Roberts argues a similar case for village planning in Durham.
▪ Yet, there have been similar cases involving congressmen in recent years, and no one suffered the way Mr Reynolds did.
▪ In May, 1982, a similar case also challenged parents' fundamental rights.
▪ A similar case is cited by Ulpian.
fashion
▪ It would appear that one, two, four and six are marked in a basically similar fashion.
▪ So... what if a computer were built to operate in a similar fashion?
▪ And if everyone else is rebelling in a similar fashion, we might get some decent hot hatchbacks back into circulation.
▪ The other networks built their news departments of global depth and experience in a similar fashion.
▪ In a similar fashion, changes in opportunities reflect the development of the social career.
▪ The latter two factors, analysts said, would not be bolstering growth in a similar fashion this year.
▪ Many rural areas have acted in similar fashion.
▪ In similar fashion, we might say that the news is what news directors and journalists say it is.
fate
▪ The letter has suffered a similar fate.
▪ Other men assigned the task suffered similar fates.
▪ East forced two short corners which proved fruitless and likewise Antrim had a similar fate.
▪ This or a similar fate awaits the organization that stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the reality of its circumstances.
▪ He was compared with Aristides the Just, and there were those who wished a similar fate for him.
▪ Perhaps, like the lead coffin of Osiris, which suffered a similar fate, it is the real secret of alchemy.
▪ There are many other groups which suffer a similar fate to women.
▪ All you need is love - the requiem for John Lennon, prophet of peace who met a similar fate.
pattern
▪ A similar pattern emerged when subjects were asked to describe picture stories.
▪ The next clear realignment followed a similar pattern.
▪ Less deliberately structured groupings can exhibit similar patterns of socialisation, too.
▪ It is plausible that disorder follows a similar pattern.
▪ Section 2 will follow a similar pattern in relation to banking and the monetary system.
▪ Work-wise it followed a similar pattern to the previous day.
▪ A similar pattern occurred at Peterborough.
▪ This is likely to be the case for other families with a similar pattern of inheritance.
position
▪ Other Western governments took a similar position.
▪ The State Bar found itself in a similar position during Gov.
▪ Matthew Lutz, 61, vice chairman and business development manager of Magnum, who held a similar position with Hunter.
▪ Why were both Stirling and Perth in suitable and similar positions to be market towns?
▪ Since determinism can never be proved, determinists are in an exactly similar position to theists.
▪ These place the parties in a similar position to an asset sale, namely needing the consent of a third party.
▪ What do people in similar positions in comparable businesses in the industry earn?
problem
▪ Soon Alexander found himself teaching fellow actors, with similar problems, what he had learned.
▪ Very similar problems arise with the interpretation of the temporal deictic expression now.
▪ Tertullian, in his On the Resurrection of the Flesh, tells of a similar problem.
▪ Other industrialized and densely populated countries have similar problems.
▪ There would be a similar problem of waste of shuttering fan in situ concrete frame were used.
▪ Cattle and horses cause similar problems where they occur.
▪ A similar problem arises when the deferred consequences are positively reinforcing.
result
▪ Both approaches appear to achieve similar results.
▪ A third round of injections showed similar results.
▪ So just as Daisy had done a year or so earlier, she had made her announcement ... With similar results.
▪ A succession of other polls have shown similar results.
▪ Rowntree's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth.
▪ Similar causes tend to produce similar results.
▪ The ISIS-2 study gave similar results at 35 days.
▪ This may sound unduly harsh, but most attempts at clarifying organizational values produce numbingly similar results.
situation
▪ In Leeds, a clergyman, the Rev. Edward Jackson, had found a similar situation.
▪ When faced with similar situations in the future, why not give yourself prior warning by asking the following question?
▪ We can look back to a similar situation hundreds of years ago - the taming of knights in the Middle Ages.
▪ In a similar situation two weeks ago against Denver, Barry made the game-winner.
▪ A more satisfactory explanation might be that different moral considerations apply for different people in similar situations.
▪ Before we do this exercise, let me tell you about a similar situation just two weeks ago.
▪ Different counsellors can use different methods in similar situations with equal success.
▪ How would you react if you were the boss or the employee in a similar situation?
vein
▪ In a similar vein, seventeenth-century doctors puzzled over the stimulating effects of coffee and tea.
▪ The same dialogue continues in similar vein for shepherd and herdsman.
▪ Leapor's poems inviting friends to tea are written in a similar vein of pleasure or celebration.
▪ In similar vein, dare it be said that the charitable function of Age Concern serves this dual function?
▪ OSF/1.1 is essentially a modularised effort, in a similar vein to Unix System Labs's Destiny product.
▪ In similar vein, 76% considered that companies should attach a high priority to maximising profits.
▪ These poems along with many others in a similar vein, show that working people were articulating aspects of their experience in verse.
way
▪ In a similar way, sheets of octahedra are formed from aluminium, oxygen and hydroxyl groups.
▪ While gonorrhea also exploded in a similar way among gay men, its preponderance was significant not only numerically but genetically.
▪ The torso of a Dahomey woman was photographed by Penn in a similar way.
▪ They all reacted to their fear in a similar way.
▪ Magnetic boards are expensive and used in a similar way as felt boards.
▪ If they have, you can embellish the tale of the Leprous Pavanne from the Introduction in a similar way.
▪ In a similar way Paris remarks at the end of the scene: Sweet, above thought I love thee.
▪ Many other studies have been conducted, either in exactly the same or a very similar way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you have anything similar to this material but cheaper?
▪ I know how you feel, because I have a similar problem.
▪ It's bigger than Jim's room, but it's very similar.
▪ The law has served as a model for similar policies in other states.
▪ The Marines also experimented with fast-attack vehicles, similar to dune buggies.
▪ When you look at these two carpets, you can see that the patterns are very similar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bold face letters represent amino acids identical or similar between two proteins with the numbers of amino acid residues.
▪ It has not yet been well defined, whether a similar approach is justified for bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
▪ Its emerging democratic polity and guided market economy are also similar.
▪ Scaevola's case resembles Celsus'; and there is a similar case in Ulpian.
▪ The present position is that various countries have enacted data protection laws which have similar patterns but significant differences of detail.
▪ These regions have similar inflation outlooks, low-cost labor and projected growth rates two to four times our own growth rate.
▪ These samples have been found to be very similar socioeconomically to a representative sample.