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IN COMMON WITH
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the same way as; like
Example:
in common with families in general, one parent families have been getting smaller
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Context examples:
Am I to take it that I have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together; or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful to him?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Chemotherapy is usually associated with a collection of side effects ranging from digestive problems to hair loss, but a study demonstrated that female cancer patients may find they have something in common with much younger women in one specific area — their ovaries.
(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)
He soon returned, greatly improved in appearance; but so rubicund, that I couldn't help thinking his face had this in common with the lobsters, crabs, and crawfish,—that it went into the hot water very black, and came out very red.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
