worlds apart
idiom
: completely different
Your ideas and mine are worlds apart.
Their living conditions were worlds apart.
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Two Delta sons, worlds apart, yet forever intertwined, their music echoing across decades and genres.
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Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Your questions about maps, California’s feud with Texas and more, answered maps
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Debunking the rumors: Do California redistricting ballot envelopes reveal your vote?
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The two substances are worlds apart, chemically and physically.
—Martin Cullip, Boston Herald, 1 Oct. 2025
My cross-cultural background played a significant role in situating the project across two cities that are worlds apart geographically and culturally.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
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Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Your questions about maps, California’s feud with Texas and more, answered maps
Urban vs. rural: California redistricting fight would merge counties worlds apart
Debunking the rumors: Do California redistricting ballot envelopes reveal your vote?
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The two substances are worlds apart, chemically and physically.
—Martin Cullip, Boston Herald, 1 Oct. 2025
My cross-cultural background played a significant role in situating the project across two cities that are worlds apart geographically and culturally.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for worlds apart
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“Worlds apart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worlds%20apart. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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