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Among vs. Between
Among
/əˈmʌŋ/Examples:
'There was a packet of it among the gardener's things.''You plot among you to wean my heart from her.He pants loudly, "Sir, there are spies among us."
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This word has no antonymsBetween
/bɪˈtwiːn/Examples:
I came to myself being hustled along between two men.There's all the difference in the world between...Difference between he says and they say?
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This word has no antonymsWays to tell them apart:
- Among is used for more than two entities, while between is typically for two entities.
- Think among the crowd versus between two chairs.
- Use between for choices involving distinct, individual items, and among for non-distinct groups or more than two items.
- Between is about one-to-one relationships, among refers to a collective interaction.
- Picture between as a line connecting two dots, and among as a web connecting multiple dots.
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