as in different
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as in differing
to be unlike; to not be the same
her depressed mood today contrasts sharply with her good spirits yesterday
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Adjective
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New York is estimated to have over 100 different types of trees, with the most common kinds being birch, maple and beech trees.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025 -
Texas lawmakers are looking to rein in access to products that contain THC, but the House and Senate could take somewhat different approaches.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The group recognizes, however, that people have differing underlying risks for cancer and therefore supports the current recommendation that most men limit themselves to no more than two drinks a day and most women consume no more than one.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
4 Jan. 2025
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Broadly, this is a system of price controls in which an average or minimum price across a group of countries with similar gross domestic output per capita can serve as an anchor towards which differing prices may converge over time.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Their happenstance meeting during an afternoon prison visit gives way to an unlikely dynamic that gets ever thornier the more their two disparate worlds collide.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Still, deploying LLMs in real world healthcare settings – especially across disparate clinical environments – is no easy feat.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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She might be played by the incomparable Ellen Pompeo in Good American Family, but Kristine Barnett is keeping a low-key profile ever since her adoption controversy.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
20 Mar. 2025
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Last year, an acclaimed and innovative documentary about the incomparable musician/producer/artist debuted at Sundance, with a 24-hour version of the film livestreaming for home audiences earlier this year.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Contrasting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contrasting. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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