dissimilar

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Dissimilar particles can sometimes become entangled, but until now, these mismatched entangled particles weren’t known to interfere with one another.

From Scientific American • Jan. 11, 2023

Dissimilar siblings team up to tackle seventh grade in the new mockumentary-style sitcom “Legendary Dudas.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2016

I stare at a table of numbers whose columns are labeled DA DN SA SN, and have to flip back and scan for the explanation: Dissimilar Affirmative, Dissimilar Negative, Similar Affirmative, Similar Negative.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Dissimilar from Walpole, and from commoner and coarser men who occupied the same office, Peel forbade that a name which he had made illustrious should be degraded and stigmatized by any title of nobility.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

The Light whose Rays are all alike Refrangible, I call Simple, Homogeneal and Similar; and that whose Rays are some more Refrangible than others, I call Compound, Heterogeneal and Dissimilar.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir