Disparate

When a word is borrowed from another language, it frequently begins by having the same meaning; but with continued use in both languages, the now separate words may accrete disparate connotations.

In a sumptuous conference area at the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York, foundation president Darren Walker told an animated crowd—policymakers and corporate executives as well as NGO representatives and colorfully dressed indigenous leaders from around the world—about his commitment to bring these disparate groups together to save the planet.

When learning a foreign language, students benefit from reading disparate example sentences.

The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.

The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.

Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.

Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.

M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.