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disparate

[dis-per-it, dih-spar-] / ˈdɪs pər ɪt, dɪˈspær- /


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There’s a touch of the surreal about his work: Disparate characters and illogical sizes are grouped together, as when a hugely scaled grasshopper faces a smiling dog.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Disparate cultures link, cementing the bond through a mix of wit, worry and skepticism.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

Disparate regulations across 54 countries, and scant transparency, have led some pharmaceutical companies to drop efforts to register their products, leading to limited availability of important medicines in many African nations.

From Reuters • Feb. 11, 2022

Disparate impact is a judicial theory developed in the U.S. that allows challenges to policies that are nondiscriminatory on their face but appear to have a disproportionately negative effect on certain groups.

From Fox News • Aug. 3, 2021

Disparate racial elements mingled in the long Southern oval and the Slavonic modelling of brow and cheek-bone.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas




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