different
Usage
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The adjective different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story. Distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method. Diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties.
Example Sentences
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Roj is home to more than 2,000 others from 40 different nationalities - mainly women and children - who have been held there since IS was driven from its final foothold in Syria in 2019.
From BBC
While that represents a lot of different projects, there is pressure for the division to start paying its way.
From Barron's
While that represents a lot of different projects, there is pressure for the division to start paying its way.
From Barron's
That a derivative is novel or different is no excuse for a court to rewrite existing law.
But it became clear almost immediately Nissanka was operating on an entirely different level in Pallekele, playing "an innings for the ages," as Test Match Special commentator Daniel Norcross labelled it.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
