a world apart
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: completely different
The place where she lives now is a world apart from the small town where she grew up.
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Today’s protests, however, are carried out continuously in the public eye—a social-media vantage that makes the campus less a world apart than a snow globe for all interested parties.
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Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
This might sound like a world apart from the flat expanses of South Florida, where the terrain typically alternates between swamp and suburban sprawl.
—Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Adaline and Kellen go to school less than two hours away from each other, but their experience in the classroom is a world apart.
—Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
Here are their tips for layering on the greenery and using every inch of space to create an oasis that feels a world apart from the city.
—Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2024
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Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
This might sound like a world apart from the flat expanses of South Florida, where the terrain typically alternates between swamp and suburban sprawl.
—Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Adaline and Kellen go to school less than two hours away from each other, but their experience in the classroom is a world apart.
—Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
Here are their tips for layering on the greenery and using every inch of space to create an oasis that feels a world apart from the city.
—Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2024
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