disparate

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Perhaps evoking an oft-quoted Didion quote: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

They’ll buy up stock in the initial, single company, anticipating the spinoff will unlock value in what will become disparate and separately traded entities.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Instead, it integrates many disparate elements of a business’ enterprise tech stack and internal models or processes, and is able to push out decisions through read-write loops while maintaining compliance and data validation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Strikes on disparate vessels may seem a thin reed for an ICC investigation, but the court has been moved to act by less.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The important thing was that Barack had managed to process his life story, snapping together the disparate pieces of his Afro-Kansan-Indonesian-Hawaiian-Chicagoan identity, writing himself into a sort of wholeness this way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama