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as in variety
the quality or state of being composed of many different elements or types
the diversity of plant life on that tropical island is staggering
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as in distinctiveness
the quality or state of being different
there's considerable diversity in the platforms for the two major parties
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Recent Examples of diversity
This drought-tolerant beauty serves as a host plant to Pearl Crescent butterfly larvae, and its blooms support a diversity of specialized native bees.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
This follows the nomination earlier this month of former Christie’s executive Carly Murphy as Art Basel’s new global head of collector and institutional relations, another signal of the growing diversity and sophistication of the fair’s potential audience.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
Given the lack of participant diversity — 97% were White — and of details on sleep quality, as well as the brief light-tracking period, more studies are needed to understand how changes to lighting could reduce cardiovascular disease risk, the researchers wrote.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Despite this diversity of size, shape, lifestyle and metabolism, the sharks fit the two-thirds scaling rule almost perfectly.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
This follows the nomination earlier this month of former Christie’s executive Carly Murphy as Art Basel’s new global head of collector and institutional relations, another signal of the growing diversity and sophistication of the fair’s potential audience.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
Given the lack of participant diversity — 97% were White — and of details on sleep quality, as well as the brief light-tracking period, more studies are needed to understand how changes to lighting could reduce cardiovascular disease risk, the researchers wrote.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Despite this diversity of size, shape, lifestyle and metabolism, the sharks fit the two-thirds scaling rule almost perfectly.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diversity
Noun
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Familial pairs choose the experimental merge for a variety of reasons, including a mother with Alzheimer’s linking her mind with her daughter; teenage brothers, one terminally ill; a man and his pregnant fiancée; a father and his addict daughter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Despite these drawbacks, dryland cotton offers notable sustainability advantages, including a smaller carbon footprint compared to other cotton varieties.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In the 1960s, Canadians hungered for public intellectuals pontificating on the distinctiveness of their identity.—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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There’s no spark of distinctiveness in any of these characters.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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With goal difference not a factor in this three-match format, there was no incentive for Miami to push forward in the final period, and Nashville never looked like turning the contest around.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Careful measurement of these differences might still allow scientists to distinguish between the two scenarios.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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But given the complexity and heterogeneity of the disease, that’s not likely to be what a complete remedy will look like.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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The heterogeneity surprises people.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Part of it is the politics of AI and a multiplicity of other factors.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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Even his gothic tales explore the grimmest of themes in all their multiplicity, whether in the beat of a disembodied heart pulled from the ribcage of a mutilated corpse or the haunting specter of death cursing aristocrats gathered in the penitential sepulcher of their castle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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For the chattering women, by contrast, the tool of power is writing; and for people who were almost certainly illiterate, the writing takes on almost magical characteristics.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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The characters are all different, but the contrast in personalities was similar.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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Zhao drew a distinction between her latest work and her previous films.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2025
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Three Nashville restaurants earned One Michelin Star, while seven more earned Bib Gourmand distinctions among other recognition.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Diversity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diversity. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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