dichotomies

Example Sentences

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It doesn’t seem nearly as big as the dot-com bubble, and the dichotomies don’t seem extreme, as in the 1990s.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

That’s one of the dichotomies of Casyette’s music.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

The last Burning Man I attended was in 2016 but even then the cracks in the foundation were beginning to show the dichotomies of the festival’s dystopian utopia.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023

Collapsing those false dichotomies is as much the role of the leader as enshrining core values, setting a strategy and inspiring action.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023

Jefferson’s mind consistently saw the world in terms of clashing dichotomies: Whigs versus Tories; moderns versus ancients; America versus Europe; rural conditions versus urban; whites versus blacks.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis