How to Use disparate in a Sentence
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How do the elements that come from the disparate landscapes of the Veneto—the plains, the waterways, the lagoons—make their way to the market?
— Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 3 Oct. 2024 -
For Allen, her co-writing career and solo work represent two separate parts of her creativity and manifest through disparate processes.
— Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024 -
The two scales are too disparate to see at the same time.
— Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022 -
Its disparate parts don’t quite jell, and the ending feels rushed.
— Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023 -
What were the odds of these two disparate people popping up at the same place at the same time?
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022 -
So there’s wildly disparate costs, even across the street.
— Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 24 June 2019 -
The years and circumstances were as disparate as the cities themselves.
— Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022 -
The response to the problem in these hotspots is as disparate as the landscape itself.
— The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021 -
The Asian Cup, with its squads drawn from distant and disparate leagues, has that in abundance.
— Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024 -
At the time, the two disparate groups were attempting to find common ground.
— David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 -
Just a week ago, Garcetti was proposing a monorail to connect disparate parts of the city.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2017 -
All in all, the game’s disparate plot threads never come together to feel like more than the sum of their parts.
— Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022 -
Signs of the disparate impact are already starting to emerge.
— Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 May 2021 -
These disparate views have led to a rift over the most effective way to fight for lasting change.
— oregonlive, 6 June 2020 -
That drives racially disparate arrests and the use of force, researchers say.
— NBC News, 14 May 2018 -
For vain people like me, these are more like threats than a set of disparate options.
— Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 19 June 2017 -
These most recent protests—much like the gilet jaunes themselves—were disparate.
— Jess McHugh, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2019 -
The topic’s too vast and nebulous and the cultures too disparate.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023 -
On the surface, the books appear to cover disparate subjects.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2021 -
So Biggers’s choices embody disparate ideas of what the Phillips is, or should be.
— Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021 -
And even if McCarthy is ousted, the headaches of trying to appeal to the disparate wings of the party aren't going away.
— Rachel Scott, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2023 -
All of the disparate land parcels are connected by a road, and there’s private beach access as well.
— Helena Madden, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021 -
Origin stories that were disparate, but people who all shared a unique sense of grief and loss.
— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024 -
There’s nothing quite like the bond of fatherhood in the great outdoors to tie the lives of six disparate dads together.
— Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023 -
Rarer still that the recall reaches such disparate places on its third day.
— David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 Nov. 2017 -
No, these three nations, disparate at first glance, have produced the three fastest 400-m hurdlers of all time.
— Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 30 July 2024 -
The picture of disparate student engagement is not black and white.
— Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2020 -
However, the two shortstops couldn’t have gotten off to much more disparate starts this spring.
— Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024 -
Scott-Nettles had worked a range of disparate jobs: Runway model.
— USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024 -
What united these disparate pirates was the dream of making a fortune.
— Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
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