disjuncture
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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
And it’s a glaring kind of disjuncture for anyone, I think, with an ethical sensibility,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
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
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
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