disjuncture

Example Sentences

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Incidentally, I suspect there is a strange disjuncture between all this parliamentary theatre and most of you reading this.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

In “Democracy Rules” he turns his attention to democracy itself, and the threat posed by the disjuncture between citizens and the critical infrastructure of democracy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

It was that disjuncture, that refusal to locate genius within the limitations of the body, that made the episodes so effective and convincing.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2021

“That disjuncture between GDP and how most people feel about the economy is even going to be larger in the coming weeks and months,” said Bivens.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2020

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton