disjunction

Example Sentences

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There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

It is a story of motherhood and disjunction, of self-making and villainy, of a remarkable power depicted and deployed on an intimate scale.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

“I’ve never seen a disjunction between the data and the general vibe quite as large as I saw,” said Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist, noting that employment growth is an economic North Star.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

It was meant admiringly, and Schjeldahl is absolutely right: A disjunction between intentions and effects can produce aesthetic dynamite.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy