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The phrase "a different figure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an alternative representation, amount, or person that differs from what has been previously mentioned.
Example: "In the report, we analyzed the original data, but now we need to consider a different figure to understand the trends better."
Alternatives: "an alternative figure" or "another figure".
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Shorten cuts a different figure these days.
During the shoot, he recalled, he cut quite a different figure.
But once he chopped off the ponytail he cut a different figure – more Jay Gatsby than Ozzy Osbourne.
A different figure might have forged stronger links with the developing musical argument, and British music needed a Glock as well as a Britten.
"Their aspirations were for a different figure and I have sympathy for them because of figures that were being bandied about before I was even appointed or approached".
The newly appointed joint minister for the north, Matt Canavan, gave a different figure, telling media in Darwin the value of identified potential projects was "more than $14bn".
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Under a different name, the same figure was around much earlier.
All three studies, however, have determined these ratios to a different number of significant figures.
Sanders is a very different figure: an old guy – and angry.
Two years later, he cuts a very different figure, during an interview with the Guardian at his small Moscow office.
Al Gore is a very different figure from the hero of a Michael Moore or Errol Morris documentary: he is an overdog politican and makes no secret of his patrician background.
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