Example Sentences

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When you zoom in or out, it’s self-similar.

From The Verge • Mar. 15, 2022

This model has been pioneered in a lot of Sun Belt metro areas where you have a relatively recent housing stock and a fairly self-similar one as well.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021

These places are an easier market than New York or San Francisco: The housing stock is newer, cheaper, and more suburban—which is to say, self-similar.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018

Very brief excerpt: “...the millions of stars within galaxies organize themselves into self-similar, fractal structures, like the fractal structure found in Bach’s and Ligetti’s compositions.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2016

In the old aphorism, nature is always self-similar.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo