juxtaposition
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“It’s kind of a bizarre juxtaposition of people knowing me and people not knowing me at all.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 27, 2026
And the juxtaposition of objects within a room creates lively dialogues among the artifacts.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 26, 2026
Of course, this brings up a very interesting juxtaposition in that it depends on how far states are willing to go.
From Slate β Oct. 7, 2026
The race also featured a stark generational juxtaposition, with DeGette, 68, having held public office since well before Kiros, 29, was even born.
From Salon β Jul. 1, 2026
This juxtaposition of his heart and mind gave him not only headaches but weird dreams.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Those, like myself, who want to know more will be grateful for the catalog, which includes excellent research into the construction of cards and juxtapositions of different interpretations of individual cards across centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 26, 2026
Eliot was creating a new type of poetry from stylistic juxtapositions, “Louis Armstrong, way down the river in New Orleans, was working out a similar technique for jazz.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 2, 2026
He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.
From BBC β Nov. 29, 2025
Could we then define L.A. music as simply be music of, and open to, juxtapositions?
From Los Angeles Times β May 16, 2025
The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing juxtaposition
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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