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disparate
1. adj. Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.
2. adj. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
3. n. (chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

Example Sentences

The people depicted in this story were strong, and disparate.  Simply put, the prime minister did not attempt to present to the rest of us disinterested evidence compiled by disparate, well-informed sources.  A disparate group of would-be illegal migrants waits by moonlight on the Moroccan shore for the trafficker's signal to embark.

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