as in different
being not of the same kind
a place where people with dissimilar backgrounds can interact
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Recent Examples of dissimilar
This would not be too dissimilar to how Elliott worked under Klopp.
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
All in all, the concept doesn’t look all that dissimilar from the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 prototype from the last decade, only more streamlined.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
The show will be staged inside a house that’s meant to replicates an old village house, one not so dissimilar to Marie Antoinette’s countryside retreat, Hameau de la Reine, on the grounds of Versailles.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
All in all, the concept doesn’t look all that dissimilar from the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 prototype from the last decade, only more streamlined.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
The show will be staged inside a house that’s meant to replicates an old village house, one not so dissimilar to Marie Antoinette’s countryside retreat, Hameau de la Reine, on the grounds of Versailles.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissimilar
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Thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon to protest federal immigration activity after agents were involved in two different shootings this week, one that left a woman dead in Minneapolis and another that wounded two people in Portland, Oregon.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Just like its jogger counterpart, this hoodie comes in three different lengths and is carried up to a size 3XL.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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Based on the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, this story highlights the struggles of a diverse group of women who come together to survive more than the destruction of their city.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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The study population was also largely White, relatively highly educated and had few co-occurring conditions, Holtzheimer said — so how SAINT may work for more diverse groups or ones with more than one diagnosis isn’t fully clear, though this wasn’t the point of the study.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Leia will sport an adventurous look while Han will wear his distinctive black Corellian vest.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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Faithfull’s signature, distinctive, melodic, high-register vocals had defined her career, but her voice was permanently altered by severe laryngitis and her persistent drug abuse.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2026
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But beyond all that, the sports issue has brought out the reality of biology itself, underscoring the fact that femininity and masculinity are not just states of mind, and that men and women are irreversibly, insurmountably different and distinct in anatomy and physiology.—
Alanna Smith,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2026
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The stimulation produces a distinct physical sensation inside the nose.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Dissimilar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimilar. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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