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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Fueling this emigration is the rise of remote work, higher living costs at home and an appetite for a different lifestyle.
It tends to look its most impressive when closest to the horizon at moonrise which occurs at different times across the UK, including:
From BBC
"Operation Epic Fury" is on an entirely different scale militarily and politically.
From Barron's
It treats a particular three letter sequence, typically a stop codon that marks the end of a protein, in two different ways.
From Science Daily
You don't get that much time off so you have to be able to switch off as quickly as possible... to live in a different world... to then come back fresh.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
