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The phrase "fairly identical" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used incorrectly because "identical" implies complete sameness, making "fairly" redundant.
Example: "The two designs are fairly identical, but there are some minor differences in color."
Alternatives: "quite similar" or "very alike".
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The Xenopus protein is 85% identical along the first 150 amino acids after which they begin to diversify considerably while the Drosophila melanogaster orthologue is fairly identical along the whole protein, the identity being 52%.
Mr. Steinmeier, who also served as vice chancellor, surely knows it by heart: With fairly identical policies to defend, she's popular, he's much less so.
And we find it again, in a fairly identical scene in a very similar movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
Conversely, at fixed water content when Si/Al ratio increased, porous network characteristics were fairly identical with employed formulations, and mechanical parameters slightly increased.
These results were fairly identical to the results of the popular indirect titration method, showing that the developed methodology is essentially applicable for the surface characterization of acidic groups on CNTs and potentially extended to the other carbon nanomaterials.
A fairly identical system had been employed by Silk Road for about two years.
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It is used to evaluate relative performance in a group of DMUs in which all members are fairly homogenous and use an identical set of inputs to produce a variety of identical outputs.
The clip-on earrings were not identical; one was a fairly standard X, while the other one -- now missing -- had sort of a distinctive swirl.
Making an identical drug molecule is fairly straightforward with current chemistry capabilities.
Nucleotide sequence analysis of representative sequences of families reported in Tables 2 and 3 showed that even with a fairly permissive classification, there is little identical sequence overlap between the two seasons.
The two trials, each with more than 400 patients in the United States and Australia, were virtually identical in design and had fairly similar results.
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