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The phrase "altogether different matter" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize a contrast or distinction between two things that may seem similar at first glance. Example: "Being a manager is challenging, but being a leader is an altogether different matter." In this sentence, the phrase emphasizes that while being a manager may have its difficulties, being a leader is even more complex and demanding.
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But getting it back is an altogether different matter.
We control the sea lanes of the world; what lies ashore is an altogether different matter.
However, integrating theology into a government counterterrorism effort is an altogether different matter.
But camp is camp; in 2004, gay is an altogether different matter.
And — an altogether different matter — what cultural activities, if any, do candidates make a point of publicizing?
Whether Mr. Fujimori will be able to carry out this new plan, however, is an altogether different matter.
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"East River From the 30th Story of Shelton Hotel," Ms. O'Keeffe's 1928 oil of vertical smokestacks and horizontal barges punching smoke plumes into a gray, grim city, looks ahead to the restricted palette and spare design of her most famous paintings despite its altogether different subject matter.
Whether I shall feel the same after the match is altogether a different matter but, genuinely, you just can't call this one in advance".
Quentin never criticized others in public, nor did he curse, but in private it was altogether a different matter.
Panzers and dive-bombers could slice through fronts, defeat armies, and overrun countries, but holding those countries down in the face of hit-and-run guerrilla and terrorist attacks was a different matter altogether and could be achieved, if at all, only by old-fashioned infantry.
Jackie Kennedy was a different matter altogether.
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