dissimilar
Example Sentences
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Yet again, however, the dissimilar qualities start to feel like echoes.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 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
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
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
And if our bodies are dissimilar, our points of view are even more so.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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