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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Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 Dec. 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, 17 Oct. 2025
Just across the channel, Île Saint-Honorat is a world apart.
—Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Irving Thalberg, born in 1899, grew up in the genteel Brooklyn of German-Jewish doctors and rabbis, a world apart from Mayer’s rougher caste of Eastern European Jews hustling for scrap metal in cold maritime Canada.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 Dec. 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, 17 Oct. 2025
Just across the channel, Île Saint-Honorat is a world apart.
—Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Irving Thalberg, born in 1899, grew up in the genteel Brooklyn of German-Jewish doctors and rabbis, a world apart from Mayer’s rougher caste of Eastern European Jews hustling for scrap metal in cold maritime Canada.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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