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Since the methods and policies of the Spaniards on the edges of empire varied over time and place, and the indigenous tribes and peoples with whom they came into contact were almost endlessly diverse, Weber was faced with the daunting challenge of writing a book that was at the same time comprehensive and comprehensible.
—J. H. Elliott, New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2006
The place is packed at both lunch and dinner. The crowd, always a diverse blend of athletes and fans, cops and criminals, showbiz and fashion, appears as heterogeneous as ever.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2003
Many students, from campuses diverse as Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, New York, and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, had classmates sign cards pledging to vote for "books, not bombs."
—Liza Featherstone, Nation, 4/11 Aug. 2003
His message appealed to a diverse audience.
a diverse group of subjects
Audrey Schomer, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
The movement is part of a wave of student organizing at U.S. colleges and universities centering around everything from the affordability of higher education and representation to who has access to a diverse array of course offerings and workplace safety concerns.
—Leah Willingham, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2024
Until the kingdom develops more diverse ways to keep its pockets full, Aramco will need to stay in good health.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
In an interview with CNBC on Thursday morning, Iger said Disney's No. 1 mission is to capture broad — if increasingly diverse — audiences.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
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Weigela has experienced a renaissance of sorts in the past decade, going from a ho-hum one-season wonder to a colorfully diverse repeat bloomer.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2024
The nonprofit is also helping to build a more diverse teaching force: About 32% of its trainees are people of color, compared with the national rate of 21%.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
Across much of East Asia, people’s names are generally less diverse than in Western countries.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
The world proved a good deal more diverse than the curators of the day imagined, and their acquisitiveness soon led to far more specimens than there were scientists to study them.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Middle English divers, diverse "differing, distinct, of various kinds, several," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French divers, diverse, deverce, borrowed from Latin dīversus "turned in different directions, situated apart, differing," from past participle of dīvertere "to separate oneself (from), be different, diverge" — more at divert
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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