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• A kind of person that is very different from the norm.

  ‘health-service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Regular callers to these programmes are a breed apart.’
  • ‘While the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians are of the same race with similar languages, the Finns are a breed apart.’
  • ‘English directors are a breed apart and unlike anything we have in this country.’
  • ‘These ghosts are a breed apart from the usual homeless types who inhabit such dwellings.’
  • ‘Diplomacy enthusiasts have always been a breed apart from the mainstream of the hobby.’