dissimilar
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Yet again, however, the dissimilar qualities start to feel like echoes.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Back in August 2023, there was a poster - not dissimilar to the School Wars one - that circulated on TikTok and Snapchat about disorder and looting on Oxford Street.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
This is a theme not dissimilar to peers, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
But the image of a baboon pulling a lever for food is not all that dissimilar from a person obsessively pecking at their phone waiting for the next email to appear.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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