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Recent Examples of otherness This feeling of otherness is probably a large part of what led me to become a writer. Elena Sheppard, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025 People are becoming more self-centered, and as a result, excluding the other, otherness. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for otherness
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Noun
  • There’s no spark of distinctiveness in any of these characters.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • However, because capital appropriates the powers of living labor to itself, the distinctiveness of the latter is deeply obscured.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Careful measurement of these differences might still allow scientists to distinguish between the two scenarios.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With universities under pressure to fire anti-Trump faculty and cut diversity programs, divinity schools will lose their academic freedom.
    Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Key pillars include driving innovation, such as using AI in retail, prioritizing sustainability through its Net Zero roadmap and fostering a people-first culture that emphasizes well-being and diversity.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The biggest distinction is that symptoms leading up to menopause last for a much longer time, while postpartum symptoms will lessen over weeks and months post-birth.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 27 Oct. 2025
  • With that distinction in mind, though, the Smithsonian's communications with Congress might not be considered lobbying, as the lawmakers' letter accuses.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lower doses, by contrast, often strike the sweet spot with far fewer risks.
    Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By contrast, Maia’s boyfriend, Dylan (Josh Hutcherson), a grade-school Spanish teacher, is the only person in her life unattached to the entertainment industry.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Otherness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otherness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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