Sample Sentences for
disparity
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    They remind him only of the brutal disparity between his life and what he'd found in Kabul.  (source)
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    As I began to play against nationally ranked players at various tournaments and camps, I realized that the disparity between my potential and theirs was glaring.  (source)
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    In the 1980s, the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to imposing the death penalty on juveniles; upheld the death penalty for disabled people suffering from "mental retardation"; and, in a widely condemned opinion, found no constitutional violation in the extreme racial disparities that could be seen throughout most death penalty jurisdictions.  (source)
    disparities = differences (in outcome)
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    Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption.  (source)
    disparity = a difference between things
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    As much as possible they try to avoid any huge disparities in intelligence, temperament, social background, and age.  (source)
    disparities = differences
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    Now Mister Philip stepped forward and for the first time, seeing him and Titch together, I noticed the startling physical disparity between the two.†  (source)
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    Even from game to game, Luma had to work hard to keep her kids focused on what they had and not on the disparities with the competition in gear, uniforms, and support.  (source)
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    The boy walked next to his mother, holding her hand, still crying, and they seemed a picture of such amateurish sadness and calamity that I nearly started laughing—laughing not at the sadness but at the picture they made of it, at the disparity between their grief and its appearances.†  (source)
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    He expressed a compassionate concern for dealing with the root causes-11.1 percent unemployment among blacks, compared with 4.7 for whites, and similar disparities in school-dropout rates, teenage pregnancies, unwed mothers, and family income.†  (source)
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    Iran is typical of third-world nations in that there is a pronounced disparity between the upper and lower classes.†  (source)
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    I detailed the terrible disparities between black and white life in South Africa.†  (source)
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    I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife.†  (source)
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    Even when he profits modestly for himself, his wife, and his kids, the disparities between his life and those of his constituents grow so wide that fingers point at him.†  (source)
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