different
Usage
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The adjective different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story. Distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method. Diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties.
Example Sentences
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After Liu’s short program at the U.S. championships last month set a national championship record, Bell was blown away for different reasons.
From Los Angeles Times
So while the macroeconomic backdrop can be the same for both gold and silver, the metals have what Koos referred to as two “very different personalities.”
From MarketWatch
This intelligent novel is instead interested in the effects of gossip, bias and assumptions, and the ways that a single set of facts can be used to construct completely different conclusions.
“We source product from literally thousands of different manufacturers and we deliver it to tens of thousands of different locations every single day,” Hollar said.
From Barron's
Van Hoisington, a veteran bond manager in Austin, Texas, who specializes in Treasury bonds, cites eight different signs that inflation is on its way down.
From MarketWatch
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