a world apart from
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: completely different from
The neighborhood she lives in now is a world apart from the small town where she grew up.
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Don seemed to live in a world apart from his family and the rest of society.
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Alex Traub, New York Times, 18 June 2023
And with its disheveled engineers, in-office cots and occasional toilet paper shortages, Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters is a world apart from the glitzy media halls of Manhattan.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 14 May 2023
However, the visual projections by Camilla Tassi, based on the arresting work of English painter and sculptor Mary Frank, effectively created a world apart from the mundane, perfect for the piece’s dreamlike narrative of archetypes.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
With prices at luxury brands rising in recent years—some, like Chanel, eye-poppingly so—the resilience in demand makes fashion feel a world apart from economic anxieties.
—Rory Satran, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
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Alex Traub, New York Times, 18 June 2023
And with its disheveled engineers, in-office cots and occasional toilet paper shortages, Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters is a world apart from the glitzy media halls of Manhattan.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 14 May 2023
However, the visual projections by Camilla Tassi, based on the arresting work of English painter and sculptor Mary Frank, effectively created a world apart from the mundane, perfect for the piece’s dreamlike narrative of archetypes.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
With prices at luxury brands rising in recent years—some, like Chanel, eye-poppingly so—the resilience in demand makes fashion feel a world apart from economic anxieties.
—Rory Satran, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
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