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dissimilarity

[dih-sim-uh-lar-i-tee, dis-sim-] / dɪˌsɪm əˈlær ɪ ti, dɪsˌsɪm- /


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The dissimilarity of impacts from each type can be significant.

From Washington Post Nov. 29, 2021

But the complete tonal dissimilarity between the laugh-track side of Allison's world and the half that's entirely a grim working-class drama was never this show's problem.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2021

Ever since Chubbs Peterson convinced Happy Gilmore to trade his Bruins sweater for a sweater vest, golf and hockey have been irrevocably intertwined—an odd couple united by apparatus, cultural dissimilarity, and the comedy therein.

From Golf Digest Jun. 5, 2019

But for all the surface dissimilarity of their deeds, the two men are ultimately guilty of the same transgression.

From Seattle Times Apr. 28, 2019

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

As for the two trials, there are some similarities of less importance than the dissimilarities that are legalistically quite distinguishing.

From Salon Apr. 30, 2024

But the more Arteaga and his colleagues looked at the snake on his book cover—a “cloud forest morph”—the more they found dissimilarities.

From National Geographic Feb. 13, 2024

Organisms belonging to a similar biome have dissimilarities in their makeup.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

But some Central American immigrants who now make their homes in Southern California believe that, for all their dissimilarities, Ortega and Bukele are mirror images.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2022

Yet despite these great dissimilarities the stories of the encounter run in broad parallel.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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