dissimilar
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The chapel’s four dissimilar facades—essentially interconnected white surfaces, ornamented and perforated with markedly different patterns of windows and doorways—are topped with a gray, curvaceous concrete roof.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The feeling isn’t dissimilar to trying to learn a new language, or even one that you were once semi-proficient in, that you haven’t studied with care in some time.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 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
And if our bodies are dissimilar, our points of view are even more so.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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