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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
similarly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
affect
▪ A rune weapon will lose its powers for this time, and other rune-based magic items will be similarly affected.
▪ Leith had a fair idea that Rosemary, against all odds, was similarly affected.
behave
▪ Rural areas beyond immediate urban influence did not all behave similarly.
▪ The crinoids and the belemnites and the corals behaved similarly.
▪ At high energies all these particles behave similarly.
▪ Of course, other animals behave similarly.
▪ Sequential sulphate and chloride profiles behave similarly.
treat
▪ People who fell into these categories were similarly treated by a society that had become obsessed by power and success.
▪ The closely related executive privilege situation is treated similarly.
▪ Most plastics, however, will display a riot of colour when treated similarly.
▪ Elevations and vertical sections are treated similarly.
▪ The budget is treated similarly, although many more members of the Legislature are likely to be involved.
use
▪ Certain samples of walnut can be similarly used giving a rather more dramatic and somewhat stormy appearance to a design.
▪ These fusion proteins could be used similarly to screen expression libraries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sales of existing homes went up 2% last month. Similarly, construction of new homes rose as well.
▪ San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro are similarly situated, both standing at the entrance to great natural harbours.
▪ The most commonly used rocks are granite, quartz, or other similarly stable materials.
▪ The son followed his father's example and, similarly, the daughter modelled herself on her mother.
▪ This idea of creation is similarly expressed in a poem by Dylan Thomas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A number of civilians were similarly sentenced.
▪ Insects that winter on land, under snow, among rocks and vegetation or in soil are similarly exposed to extreme cold.
▪ It corresponded metaphorically to a view of life that was similarly rationalistic and intelligible.
▪ Macbeth resembles Angelo in many ways, his hypocrisy being similarly fed by desire yet opposed by conscience.
▪ Mr Goldie also took the reserve intermediate title with another Epatant son, the similarly aged Goldie's Goldfinger.
▪ On Feb. 5, 1990, they began a similarly motivated one-week hunger strike.
▪ On many other issues where he and Mr Bush differ we similarly believe Mr Gore has the better of the argument.
▪ One day, perhaps, Putin will develop a similarly close rapport with Clinton's successor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Similarly

Similarly \Sim"i*lar*ly\, adv. In a similar manner.

Wiktionary
similarly

adv. (context manner English) In a like style or manner.

WordNet
similarly

adv. in like or similar manner; "He was similarly affected"; "some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil"- Samuel Johnson [syn: likewise]

Usage examples of "similarly".

From her own experience, she has become aware that there are many women like herself who leave the Family and fall into similarly controlling and abusive situations, which tend to perpetuate the experiences that they had while in the cult.

Similarly, the Iraqis have always had abysmal maintenance practices, and an operational readiness rate of 65 percent is the norm in many combat units.

Similarly, if your compartment is being accelerated upward you will feel the force of the floor on your feet.

Had Aikido or Kung-fu been similarly restricted, with penalties given for injury to the opponent, this tournament might have had a very different complexion.

The term is therefore a generic one, comprising all those faculties of mind which are concerned in conscious and adaptive action, antecedent to individual experience, without necessary knowledge of the relation between means employed and ends attained, but similarly performed under similar and frequently recurring circumstances by all the individuals of the same species.

No, he was no more about to risk handling an artefact holding a similarly imprisoned mind than I was.

The Questors were similarly allotted, Monsieur Baze to the Sieur Primorin, and General Leflo to Sieur Bertoglio.

Across the way, Tagwen was looking similarly disoriented, staring blankly into space from his hammock, eyes bleary and unfocused.

Similarly, if an ounce of the bruised root is boiled in three half-pints of water, down to a pint, a teacupful of this may be given every three or four hours.

Similarly common bawds and bulkers are put to death, and not allowed to company with men.

Similarly, the now purple bruises left on her breastflesh by Duke were somehow complemented by the cupless lilac basque that was hooked tightly beneath them.

The corresponding cyma was of the same material and similarly decorated.

Similarly, the two amino acid chains, each holding half a cystine molecule, are held together by the S-S combination of the cystine.

And when a young Haitian-born lawyer was nominated to the same Bayfront Trust, Dawkins similarly questioned the color of his skin.

They are, in effect, suggesting that the United States is already deterred by the weak arsenal of weapons of mass destruction Saddam already possesses and his similarly weak terrorist capabilities, hi other words, a policy of deterrence toward Iraq not only is based on the belief that Saddam can be deterred but starts from the assumption that the United States already is.