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dissimilar

[dih-sim-uh-ler, dis-sim-] / dɪˈsɪm ə lər, dɪsˈsɪm- /


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BTS has issued a different but not dissimilar concept with “Arirang.”

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

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

Matt: It’s not dissimilar, in some ways, to the Mike-Will stuff.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

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

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