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dissimilarity

[dih-sim-uh-lar-i-tee, dis-sim-] / dɪˌsɪm əˈlær ɪ ti, dɪsˌsɪm- /


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Opponents of the Hogan plan agree that the dissimilarity with Virginia is real, although they view it from the opposite perspective.

From Washington Post Jul. 4, 2021

Ever since Chubbs Peterson convinced Happy Gilmore to trade his Bruins sweater for a sweater vest, golf and hockey have been irrevocably intertwined—an odd couple united by apparatus, cultural dissimilarity, and the comedy therein.

From Golf Digest Jun. 5, 2019

But for all the surface dissimilarity of their deeds, the two men are ultimately guilty of the same transgression.

From Seattle Times Apr. 28, 2019

These traditions of Jesus’s eminence cannot pass the criterion of dissimilarity and are very likely later pious expansions of the stories told about him—told by people who, after his resurrection, did come to understand that he was, in some sense, divine.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2014

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

But the more Arteaga and his colleagues looked at the snake on his book cover—a “cloud forest morph”—the more they found dissimilarities.

From National Geographic Feb. 13, 2024

Organisms belonging to a similar biome have dissimilarities in their makeup.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

While there are many dissimilarities, “Magufuli presents his leadership as a wholesale return to Nyerere,” said Dan Paget, a politics professor at the University of Aberdeen in Britain.

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2020

I did find that to be true, everywhere I went… it’s a cliché, but our commonality is way stronger than our dissimilarities.

From Salon Sep. 27, 2018

Yet despite these great dissimilarities the stories of the encounter run in broad parallel.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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