Systems in which the rules are based on usage, such as languages or customary law, are condemned to become absurd, cumbersome and contradictory, since every time a small error slips into one of their usages, it is integrated into the rules, by definition, for eternity. The more users are ignorant, the more systems degrade rapidly. English, poorly used by millions of people, natives or not, for centuries, is an example of the degradation of a system at terminal stage, no longer presenting any logic, neither in its syntax, nor its grammar, nor its vocabulary or its pronunciation. Similarly, with customary rights becoming too cumbersome and incomprehensible, the states which rely on them tend to switch to prescriptive law.

For many years, Tom has been constantly complaining about his traumatic childhood, but there are many people who were similarly abused in their childhood who did not end up like Tom.

In an adult human, the uterus is shaped similarly to a pear, and weighs around 60 grams.

All of the men were dressed similarly to Tom.

All of you behave similarly.

You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four—if they could master the perspective of the thing.

In an essay similarly devoted to allegorical procedures in contemporary art, Buchloh discusses 6 women artists.

There isn't a bad man in the world who has been able to get a good woman; similarly, there isn't a bad woman in the world who has been able to get a good man.

We know that we are closer to monkeys than to rodents. Similarly cats and dogs are closer to one another than to cows or pigs.

Do not fear me. I am afraid of many whom I find enviable, intimidating, or simply awkward to talk to. I don't want anyone to similarly fear me in any of those ways—over my time on these sites, I've encountered some people who were afraid of me, specifically or non-specifically. Let us dispel our mutual fears.