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disparate

[dis-per-it, dih-spar-] / ˈdɪs pər ɪt, dɪˈspær- /


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Perhaps evoking an oft-quoted Didion quote: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

They’ll buy up stock in the initial, single company, anticipating the spinoff will unlock value in what will become disparate and separately traded entities.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Since then, for a host of complicated and mostly unforeseeable reasons, disparate circumstances across the region incline, slowly, in a promising direction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Never — and this includes the Dodgers’ time in bankruptcy court — have the fates of the two Los Angeles franchises been so disparate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Masters and mistresses in degrees of wickedness, estates of disparate means and ambition.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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