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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

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  • La OMS organiza nueva reunión sobre la gripe y el intercambio de virus gripales, mientras Europa analiza los "disparates" de la OMS Grupo de expertos considera que el acceso a los medicamentos seguros es una cuestión de salud pública y no de propiedad intelectual Print This Post

    Intellectual Property Watch Kaitlin Mara 2010

  • I guess as a National English Honor Society recipient several years running I may be jaded as to use of vocabulary and diction, but it would go a long way to enabling a common ground AND goal for disparates faiths, cultures and races.

    A different perspective on Carradine's career. Steven Barnes 2009

  • Nunca foi tão verdade como agora dizer que a televisão está cheia de disparates pegados.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • The world blocks the mind, stones in a river, but thought overflows these material dams, moving as one, a unity of disparates, given one direction by their natural place, rushing like music to a divine consummation;

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • The world blocks the mind, stones in a river, but thought overflows these material dams, moving as one, a unity of disparates, given one direction by their natural place, rushing like music to a divine consummation;

    Another Poem Draft 2005

  • Bem, está na hora de me deixar de disparates e pôr-me a fazer o jantar, que isto de encher a pança a dez pessoas tem que se lhe diga.

    Vazio Finito II Artur 2005

  • And the two faculties it connects, being one by analogy and numerically, are each to each as the qualities discerned are to one another (for what difference does it make whether we raise the problem of discrimination between disparates or between contraries, e.g. white and black?).

    On the Soul 2002

  • Le Canada est ne de la determination des Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir G.E. Cartier, D'Arcy McGee et autres visionnaires qui ont senti au milieu du siecle dernier que ces colonies disparates erigees sur les bords du majesteux St Laurent ne pourrait survivre et grandir qu'en s'unissant.

    Transport in Canada and National Unity 1992

  • In his definition of the Imagination, this unity becomes a unity of disparates, or even of contraries, thus converging into another speculative doctrine dear to the idealists: the unity of opposites.

    ORGANICISM G. N. G. ORSINI 1968

  • Invention thus split into invention of “artificial” argu - ments (intrinsic or analytic arguments such as causes and effects, subjects, adjuncts, disparates, contraries, etc.) and invention of “inartificial” arguments (extrinsic arguments, such as testimony, less cogent than the artificial).

    RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

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