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apart vs a part

apart

Definitions

adverb

  1. one from the other
  2. not taken into account or excluded from consideration
  3. away from another or others
  4. separated or at a distance in place or position or time
  5. into parts or pieces
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adjective

  1. remote and separate physically or socially
  2. having characteristics not shared by others

Examples

Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.

Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.

If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.

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