disparate

Example Sentences

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It’s almost funny how thematically similar yet ultimately disparate “Tow” is to “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta opened a civil rights investigation last month into the county’s response to the Eaton fire in Altadena, looking at disparate effects based on race, age and disability.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

Jarvis said volunteers often would not meet again until a real life callout "so it is bringing all of these people from very disparate backgrounds together to achieve something really quite amazing".

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

The staples sector consists of several disparate subgroups, and they need to be analyzed separately.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

What does this idea—say, the knotting of braids—have in common with that one in some other seemingly disparate area—say, the symmetries of some geometric figure?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos