I hope, in vain, that I will never again read “exact same<\/strong>“.
\nNot only is it a tautology, but it should be “exactly the same
\nas.” My wife came to the phrase in a poorly written contemporary
\nnovel. In disgust, she threw the book across the room (in reality she
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