What's the difference between amidst and amongst?

Amidst


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Amid

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
  • (2) a tumour formation amidst normal tissue, or to exclude necrotic areas.
  • (3) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (4) Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.
  • (5) The majority of nerves were vascular, although several non-vascular endings were observed at the growth plate and amidst marrow cells.
  • (6) The tools of contemporary applied mathematics reveal important hidden regularities amidst the ongoing interactive feedback phenomena occurring in interactional or dynamical systems in nature where everything affects everything else.
  • (7) In those tumors in which immunological cross-reactivity to PTH was detected, the capability of secreting PTH may be restricted to derepressed cell clones amidst other neoplastic cells, whereas the greater heterogeneity of ectopic PTH may reflect hormone cleavage by proteolytic enzymes in the tumor that is less specific than the Pro-PTH cleaving enzyme in the parathyroids.
  • (8) The man who started the move, the man who produced that one moment of skill amidst the madness, adjusted his suit.
  • (9) Amidst all of this relief I still feel a sense of concern … if it’s right for me to be free, then it’s right for all of us to be free.” He paid tribute to Fahmy as an “extraordinary professional” and to Mohamed as “the most amazing family man”, calling both men his brothers.
  • (10) Occasionally small cells were observed amidst large ones during the 24 hour nidation period, i.e.
  • (11) But despite all this, and amidst all the promise and expectations, it is crucially important that this election should be seen to be free and fair, so that Ukraine and its people can finally turn over a new leaf after the revolution.
  • (12) This first report of the natural human infection caused by R. dentocariosa is the precedent for the definite establishing of this aerobic glucose fermenting actinomycete amidst the untraditional potential pathogens of human actinomycosis.
  • (13) Today, the family unit can be helped to maintain normal life amidst intensive medical treatment; the child is acutely ill at times, but also chronically ill, and even well.
  • (14) The criteria of benignity (age under 35, presence of calcification amidst the opacity) are not always absolute.
  • (15) If, through the creation of the Red Cross and later Médecins Sans Frontières, the right to healthcare even in conflict has become the norm for more than a century, then we can achieve the same for education in 2014, and prise open a window of hope amidst the increasing despair.
  • (16) Interestingly, the histology of inhibin treated rat prostate manifested amidst the epithelial lining, an appearance of apoptotic bodies which are considered to be indicative of cell death.
  • (17) 'We sit starving amidst our gold', by Jeremy Deller - a block print of his image of Roman Abramovich's superyacht being destroyed by the 19th-century arts and crafts designer William Morris.
  • (18) The role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of thoracic disease is emerging amidst much debate and study.
  • (19) "Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance overpowers you."
  • (20) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.

Amongst


Definition:

  • (prep.) Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.
  • (prep.) Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of.
  • (prep.) Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reaction of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) with chicken erythrocyte nuclei produces covalent cross-linking of HMG proteins 1, 2 and E to DNA, in addition to cross-links amongst LMG proteins.
  • (2) Amongst the positive cases, 92 (91.1%) showed P. falciparum and 9 (8.9%) P. vivax infection.
  • (3) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (4) There are approximately 20 copies of Tc1(Hin) amongst the Tc1's present in the Bergerac genome.
  • (5) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (6) There were 18 primary cases amongst pilgrims returning from Mecca and 15 subsequent cases among Muslims over the following 19 months.
  • (7) Lahoor Talabani, director of counter terrorism for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said: "According to the intelligence we have, just Britain alone have around 400 to 450 known people fighting amongst the ranks of Isis."
  • (8) From research interviews with the parents we found increased rates of psychiatric disorder (abnormalities of emotions, behaviour or relationships) amongst them.
  • (9) There were fewer organic diagnoses amongst the patients under the age of 30 (P less than 0.05) and those with symptoms for less than 3 months (P less than 0.01).
  • (10) Amongst the 134 cases suitable for evaluation, there were 86.6% of greater than 50% responses including 45.5% complete responses (CR).
  • (11) 1.15am GMT It’s not all about quarterbacks In amongst all the talk about Brees and Foles, at least one Eagles player has been getting far too little attention coming into this game.
  • (12) Amongst several proteins detected in these preparations, the four major HSV-1 glycoproteins, gB, gC, gD, and gE, were found to be present.
  • (13) There was concordance amongst the three groups in some areas but there were also differences between patients, R.N.
  • (14) Amongst 7 cases with bacilli which were originally resistant to Isoniazid (4 and 3 respectively), there were 2 failures at 6 months one in each group with acquired resistance to Rifampicin observed at the time of the failure.
  • (15) One exception to this rule is France, which once counted the Central African Republic amongst its dominions.
  • (16) Small variations in sarcomere length amongst test contractions were observed, but these variations could not account for the effects of the test interval.
  • (17) Finally, causes of death have been analysed amongst adult patients dying during 1984, showing myocardial ischaemia and infarction to be the leading cause of mortality.
  • (18) Such a genomic structure does not appear to have been reported amongst the herpesviruses--all the genomes that do not isomerize either have repeat structures only at the termini, or if present internally, have only direct repeats.
  • (19) Reconstruction experiments using genomic DNA demonstrate that this procedure cna measure the presence of 30 copies of the transforming ras allele present amongst 3 x 10(6) copies of the wild-type allele.
  • (20) Women who had experienced alcohol problems were significantly more likely than other women to have used illegal drugs but were not distinctive in relation to the number of birth abnormalities evident amongst their offspring.

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