dualism

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As president, Carter tried to nudge American foreign policy away from its reflexive Cold War dualism toward an emphasis on human rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

Once we get beyond the dualism that The Captain is mired in, we can start experiencing real empathy and real humanity.

From Salon • May 27, 2024

With the doctrine of forms, Plato may be said to combine the metaphysics of Parmenides with that of Heraclitus into a metaphysical dualism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

This reference to the Andean concept of dualism had, for him, become a shorthand explanation for exactly this conundrum.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

Archaic; from the ecstatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor