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Imantaghavi Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Despite & in spite of

Hi,
Is there any differences between "despite" and "in spite of"? I've heard that the former is more formal and that's the only difference.
In other cases they are completely interchangeable.
Is that true?

Thank you in advance,

Iman
  

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