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The phrase "if not the same" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to indicate that two things are similar, but not identical, often in comparisons or discussions. Example: "The two proposals are quite similar, if not the same in their overall objectives."
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It still has a carousel, if not the same one that Holden's sister, Phoebe, rides on.
Now the son has a gold — if not the same renown as Bolt.
She won him a million pounds, if not the same sort of public outrage that the Milly Dowler revelations provoked.
That same intensity, if not the same compositional elegance, is shared by "Finishing the Hat" the book.
The rise of home video — of VHS tapes — kept viewers home or satisfied their appetites for foreign films (even if not the same ones).
"Not my world," Lee told New York Magazine, which makes you wonder which world he does live in if not the same one as his wife.
If not, the same crowds who celebrated his victory last year will cheer his loss at the next presidential elections in 2019 – me included.
Group applications are actively encouraged by the organisations that offer volunteer work, and most will work to ensure friends are on similar, if not the same, shift patterns.
In the end he got there: the same place where he won his one senior medal (last season's FA Cup), if not the same dressing room.
It's possible, too, that the public might now view an O. J. Simpson case with a little more sophistication, if not the same enthusiasm.
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The occurrence of several chimerical chromosomes sharing similar if not the same recombination points, common to some S. cerevisiae × S. kudriavzevii hybrids located in different branches of the parsimony tree, indicates the presence of recombination hot spots.
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