contrast
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"Nothing has happened, and there's no sign of anything happening in the near future. The contrast couldn't be greater," Sullivan said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The medical staff recommended breathwork and stretching sessions, along with contrast therapy, alternating between freezing-cold temperatures and heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
By contrast the Laos centre will likely be used exclusively by the Laotian and Chinese militaries, Koh said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
In separate interviews with The Times, Bonta said the contrast “couldn’t be starker,” while Gates said they “could not be more opposite.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
I enjoyed looking at the countryside, all colored for me by contrast with Haiti’s—the electric power wires, the irrigated fields.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
The speed of the technology’s advancement contrasts starkly with how humans actually shop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Archive film footage showing Britons in 1913 enjoying days at the races or watching the cricket contrasts sharply with what followed during the horrors of World War One.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Brazil has regulations that have expanded and forced platforms to develop control and verification mechanisms," Paganotti said, adding that this contrasts with a dearth of legislation elsewhere in the region.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
This contrasts with closed-source AI, which is designed to be controlled and private.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Visually, Saline and I were a study in contrasts.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Her rhetoric about being a submissive housewife contrasted with her role as TPUSA’s CEO.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The decline contrasted with a projected 0.1% increase expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
That contrasted with some other high-profile names, who Haas have continued to outperform this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
She contrasted it with the 1999 eclipse, when more than 30 million approved glasses were distributed nationwide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Its fulness contrasted so sharply with his hunger, its richness with his emptiness, that he recoiled from it while answering it.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Outside his neighborhood, dozens of freshly painted jacks stand out along the roadside, their bright colors contrasting with the deteriorating streets nearby.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Critics and audiences responded in turn, taking an immediate shine to Bryan’s doofiness and contrasting it with Alice’s purposeful, goal-oriented approach to a zombie apocalypse.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
A contrasting perspective holds that dystopian and cautionary science fiction serves an essential purpose by exposing the consequences of reckless behavior, political failure and technological overreach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Its primary mistake is analyzing alternatives with different risks and maturities while contrasting costs without adjustments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Two contrasting explanations suggest themselves: problems with the local people, or problems with the locally available wild plants.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing contrast
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 2
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