Different
Different adjective - Being not of the same kind.
In use
In use adjective - Currently being used.
Both terms in one sentence
- Justified in that several different calendar definitions were in use in the 1730s, and trans-Britain was on course to change its calendar twenty years later anyway.
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When those handcuffs were found, Chandler believed they belonged to all three of the female Friends at different points, until they found pictures of them in use.
Source: Casual Kink - Austrian soldiers in WWI were called "Cecchini": this word is still in use in modern Italian, only with a different meaning - snipers.
Source: Fan Nickname
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