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dissimilar

[dih-sim-uh-ler, dis-sim-] / dɪˈsɪm ə lər, dɪsˈsɪm- /


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Yet again, however, the dissimilar qualities start to feel like echoes.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

This is a theme not dissimilar to peers, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The scientific study produced an unexpected discovery which the team describe as "totally dissimilar to anything else we've uncovered".

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Downstairs in the exhibition galleries is his related sculpture of a folding card-table and four metal chairs, rendered in not dissimilar Brobdingnagian proportions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

It is a strange new kind of army, a polyglot mass of vastly dissimilar men, fighting for union.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara




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