How to Use disparate in a Sentence

disparate

adjective
Definition of disparatenext
Synonyms for disparatenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The law covers birds as disparate as eagles, red knots, Canada geese and vultures.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This may seem like a disparate group of powerful people in the fields of entertainment and sports.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2022
  • Trains likewise brought disparate places—and the élites who lived there—closer together.
    — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • There’s a charm to having so many disparate elements colliding in a such a small space.
    — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Yet just as the ship’s crew begin to rise to the occasion, so too do their series’ disparate elements.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023

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