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Six example sentences with disparate, each labelled with its topic.
The street mixes disparate styles, a glass tower beside a timber cottage beside a brick chapel from 1840.
Architecture
The two economies rest on disparate rules about hiring, so a single policy rarely helps both at once.
Economics
The museum's collection is wildly disparate, holding whale bones, Roman coins and a locomotive in the same hall.
History
The band pulls disparate influences, Portuguese fado and Detroit techno, into songs that somehow feel like one voice.
Music
The study combined disparate datasets, satellite images and hospital admissions, to link heat waves with emergency visits.
Science
The founders came from disparate worlds, a dairy farm and a hedge fund, and argued about everything except the product.
Startups
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