disparate

Example Sentences

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But they came under particular pressure Friday thanks to a confluence of disparate developments worldwide, dragging down major indexes from Tokyo to New York, with the S&P 500 dropping 1.2% from Thursday’s all-time high.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Palantir software takes an organization’s data, which may be spread out across many different systems and formats, and uses artificial intelligence to draw relationships between disparate data points, aiding customers in decision-making.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The play is about a gig driver’s adventures transporting people across Los Angeles during the first years of ride-hailing and how it connected people from disparate corners of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Under fair lending laws, companies are not allowed to enact policies that would have disparate impacts on certain groups of customers, such as people of a particular race or gender.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Masters and mistresses in degrees of wickedness, estates of disparate means and ambition.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead