dissimilar

Example Sentences

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It is dissimilar to a historic home run because a baseball leaves the field of play, and the owner becomes the fortunate fan.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 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

Considering Red Bull had to build a powertrains factory from literally nothing in this period, and recruit an entirely new staff, their timeline is not that dissimilar from Honda's.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The feeling isn’t dissimilar to trying to learn a new language, or even one that you were once semi-proficient in, that you haven’t studied with care in some time.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Although their experimental strategies were superficially dissimilar, both were studying gene regulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee