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cast in the same mold

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  1. Bearing a close resemblance, as in All his detective stories are cast in the same mold. This term uses the verb to cast in the sense of forming an object by running molten metal into a mold. [Late 1500s]


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The two men, long tennis-playing pals, are cast in the same mold, but Peterson is if anything a shade more cerebral than his former boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

The suns were not all cast in the same mold.

From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby

They may maintain opposing theses, but all their minds are cast in the same mold.

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan

He had no hair-springs and jewel-tipped machinery in his massive, angular organization, and he acted practically as if the rest of humanity had been cast in the same mold with himself.

From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Edward Payson Roe

In general, whatever is desirable for one is desirable for all, since all spirits are cast in the same mold and have the same derivation.

From A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John A. Widtsoe

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