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as in variety
the quality or state of being composed of many different elements or types
the diversity of plant life on that tropical island is staggering
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as in distinctiveness
the quality or state of being different
there's considerable diversity in the platforms for the two major parties
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Recent Examples of diversity
Whether Washington has downsized government departments, clawed back or launched investigations into diversity programs or campus antisemitism, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs has confronted many of the same challenges as elite universities across the nation.
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Byron Tau, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Aug. 2025
The ruling benefits 55 diversity visa applicants from nations such as Afghanistan, Burma, Togo, Somalia, and Iran, but does not help those whose applications were formally denied.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Additionally, the Trump administration's targeting of research focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) threatens the core mission of the 149-year-old Meharry Medical College, one of the nation's oldest and largest historically Black academic health science centers.
—Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Byron Tau, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Aug. 2025
The ruling benefits 55 diversity visa applicants from nations such as Afghanistan, Burma, Togo, Somalia, and Iran, but does not help those whose applications were formally denied.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Additionally, the Trump administration's targeting of research focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) threatens the core mission of the 149-year-old Meharry Medical College, one of the nation's oldest and largest historically Black academic health science centers.
—Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diversity
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Many brands also offer brewers in a variety of colors and finishes.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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This is particularly important for the healthcare field, especially for enterprises use-cases, as healthcare data is largely unstructured and frequently found in a variety of different modalities.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The trust fund used to make up the difference between what workers are paying in and what Social Security pays out in benefits is projected to run out of money in nine years.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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Most polls show a couple of percentage points’ difference among them, with the preferences for each sitting near the 20% mark.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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These include ad inventory, cross-channel consistency, diminishing returns, seasonality, customer heterogeneity, creative impact, funnel vs. topline goals and short- vs. long-term objectives.—
Aleks Farseev,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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The third is heterogeneity: can individuals or components take on specialized, different roles?—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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Nowadays, with the film business contracting around blockbusters, the little pictures, the B pictures and the silly pictures have deserted the theaters for television which, in its streaming multiplicity, has room to absorb them.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
7 Aug. 2025
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Dance duets may amount to a singular force with their concentrated cohesion or a seeming multiplicity spread out through all the changes paired movement can bring.—
Guillermo Perez,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2025
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Antares, by contrast, will gleam as a reddish point of light.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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By contrast, the plants pollinated by animals were related to subtropical palms, silk-cotton trees and other plants that typically grow in dry tropical climates.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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That distinction still belongs to B-Sides & Rarities, which only spent a single turn in absolute last place, at No. 100, in November 2005.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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In visceral and unrelenting prose, the novel troubles the easy distinctions between victim and perpetrator.—
Katie Kitamura
August 21,
Literary Hub,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Diversity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diversity. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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