disparate interests

collocation in English

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disparate
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪs.pər.ət/us
/ˈdɪs.pɚ.ət/
different in ...
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interest
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.trəst/us
/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofdisparateandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is thus fair to ask how so many people with such disparate interests and training all find this common topic worth their attention?
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First, the growing pool of potential self-improvers had increasingly disparate interests.
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It is instead the result of a 'desire to understand', a composition of disparate interests, a convergence of values and aims.
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It attempts to reconcile too many disparate interests.
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In this corporation we are putting together a series of disparate interests.
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For instance, there are the disparate interests of tenants, especially in large blocks.
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However, when we put together in one grouping disparate interests and rivalries, trouble will come.
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Thirdly, their structure is wrong, as too many disparate interests are grouped together, competing for scarce resources.
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Those nations have disparate interests but, by and large, to their credit, they do not play at politics in this organisation.
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Under its able chairman, it has brought together pretty good agreements involving a wide group of potentially disparate interests.
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Umbrella organisations play a key role in that work by bringing together the disparate interests that a national service framework often covers.
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I think that the balance struck between their disparate interests is now about right.
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The only other possibility would be an amalgamation of all the companies concerned which would inevitably mean a concentration of vast and sometimes disparate interests, for other purposes.
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