Sentence examples for although despite from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "although despite" is not correct and cannot be used in written English.
"Although" and "despite" serve similar purposes in contrasting ideas, but they cannot be used together in this way.
Example: "Although it was raining, we decided to go for a walk."
Alternatives: "even though" or "in spite of".

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Avoid starting a sentence using "While", "Although", "Despite the fact that", "Whereas", "Though".

In any case, no cellphone works everywhere (although despite my jest, Consumer Reports ranks Verizon as No. 1 in national coverage).

These instances depend on a learned knowledge and memory of environmental odours, although, despite multiple studies, in no case has the nature of the odour been well characterized.

The unemployment rate for 18- to 29-year-olds stands at 11.8% (although despite Mr Ryan's appeal, it is far higher for young people without college experience).

The last league meeting between the two here took place in the heady days when both were in the Premiership, although despite winning 3-0 then, QPR were relegated at the final whistle.

On the Saturday before the terror attacks, he showed his nephew Cyrus Meherji a new, blue cellular phone -- although despite their excitement, the two could not figure out how to activate the voice mail.

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In the guide, words like "allow to," "however," "although," "but" and "despite" are discouraged.

As the Times story explained, Bloomberg famously discourages the use of words like "but," "despite," "however," "although" and "allow to," and those same words are pretty much off-limits to Businessweek, too.

They were also outrebounded by 59-47, although Chandler — despite bruising his right elbow — had the two biggest of the game.

In a city largely left intact, although crumbling, despite Castro's plans for a rebuild, Havana wears its contrasting history on its sleeve.

This idea of the delinquent double was perhaps most memorably portrayed in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – although interestingly, despite sharing the same body, the title characters look strikingly dissimilar on close inspection.

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