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Recent Examples of otherness Putting a woman in the part to begin with already establishes a sense of otherness that breaks away from the tendency to play Christ as a shaggy-haired, pissy hippie. Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025 And where many comics offered sympathetic allegories about prejudice and otherness, the Panther storylines often dispensed with subtext altogether. Ekow Eshun july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025 Superman is Earth’s most famous immigrant, after all, and his otherness gets talked about a lot. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025 The withholding nature of Chernin’s Leo poses some theatrical risks but goes a long way toward explaining how the character’s otherness could be turned against him in such a malignant way. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for otherness
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Noun
  • Your wallet — and your customer service experience — will depend on knowing the difference.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For planes flying 30,000 feet above sea level or military vehicles traveling through combat zones, that level of reliability can mean the difference between life and death.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But there is little diversity in these feeder roles.
    Gena Cox, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • No court has outlawed private-sector diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    Essence, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The only Sacagawea dollar coin sold at the auction without the distinction of having been flown to space was sold for $120,000.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The biggest distinction is at coordinator.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In that spirit, the exhibition resists the expectation that women and non-binary artists must define themselves in contrast to a male norm.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In contrast to conventional phases of matter, the non-equilibrium quantum ones are defined by their dynamical and time-evolving properties.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Otherness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otherness. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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