disparate

Example Sentences

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The department said the single Dell contract replaces dozens of separate contracts providing services to disparate groups, and is expected to save around $422 million annually.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

A rapturous feeling takes over the room, as if all of the disparate identities and backgrounds came together in spiritual tune — the cluster having finally come together.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Prior to the decision, plaintiffs could prove a claim under Section 2 by showing evidence of a disparate impact on minority voters, regardless of whether the mapmakers intended it.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

They mix historical and contemporary art, a multiplicity of media and, often, objects from disparate periods and styles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The important thing was that Barack had managed to process his life story, snapping together the disparate pieces of his Afro-Kansan-Indonesian-Hawaiian-Chicagoan identity, writing himself into a sort of wholeness this way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama