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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“We try not to have a ‘this time it’s different’ mentality,” Ward said of the tech sector generally.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 4, 2025
Her courage to say, ‘I’m going to go do something completely different’ — that’s conviction.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024
“The courts have perused hundreds of pages of documents to arrive at this conclusion. For Parliament simply to say ‘the facts are different’ would be constitutionally really extraordinary,” Sumption told the BBC.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023
Garland, “the lonely, tired entertainer, often spoke of college and how ‘it all could have been different’ if she had made it there,” the 1973 story said.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
But, Ellen, I thought you were different’; and the deep and bitter shame that rushed over me then I don’t think I shall ever forget.
From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton
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