dualistic

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He first began overseeing the case in 2020, and over the months, a dualistic approach emerged: He was solicitous in the courtroom and scathing in written decisions.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Zoroastrianism is a universal faith with both monotheistic and dualistic elements, and with rituals and beliefs based on the teachings of the prophet Zoroaster, who lived sometime in the first millennium BCE.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

And so I’m just kind of a dualistic character, and I think if you put them together, that’s, like, my ideal self.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2022

“A demonized concept of the enemy is being constructed, the worldview becomes dualistic — ‘we’ and ‘they,’ “ Faessler said. “‘They’ want to destroy us.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2022

“If it is for your brother, it’s for you as well. That’s one place you dualistic types have it over the rest of us, eh?”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman