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despite */*/*/
UK [dɪˈspaɪt] / US preposition
Get it right: despite:
Never use of after despite.
Wrong: Recycling is a good way to manage waste despite of its cost.
Right: Recycling is a good way to manage waste despite its cost.
Wrong: Many people are successful in their jobs despite of the fact that they have no university diploma.
Right: Many people are successful in their jobs despite the fact that they have no university diploma. You can also use the phrase in spite of in the same way: Recycling is a good way to manage waste in spite of its cost.
Despite and in spite of mean exactly the same, but despite is much more frequent.
used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it

Three more nuclear power stations were built despite widespread opposition.

despite the fact that:

He still loves her, despite the fact that she left him.

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