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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It was also intended to counter the isolationism of the 1930s and Americans’ all-too-common tendency to see themselves as living in a world apart, protected by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Time, 12 Apr. 2025
But as commercialization took hold, the event metastasized into a pit of hard drugs, drunkenness, and debauch a world apart from its bohemian origins.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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Time, 12 Apr. 2025
But as commercialization took hold, the event metastasized into a pit of hard drugs, drunkenness, and debauch a world apart from its bohemian origins.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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