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juxtapose

[juhk-stuh-pohz, juhk-stuh-pohz] / ˈdʒʌk stəˌpoʊz, ˌdʒʌk stəˈpoʊz /


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"Like, the rebel I am, I love to juxtapose," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“As Matthew says, you can’t go wrong because all the comedy comes from character, and all the horror comes from real horror. There’s no need to juxtapose them; they come out of truthfulness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The effect of the metanarrative is to juxtapose Byron’s violent passions with the careful, repressed behavior of one who hoped to capture him in literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

How do you juxtapose those two things, the play and the precision?

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2024

If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Churchill juxtaposes a surreal dinner party featuring famous women from literature, history and myth with a contemporary drama of two sisters who have made starkly different choices with their lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

This year's exhibit juxtaposes elegant fashion looks with paintings and sculpture: think a Saint Laurent design next to Van Gogh's "Irises", or a John Galliano gown for Maison Margiela paired with an antique statue.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

The campaign juxtaposes such wild, clearly AI-created images with real photography of fit people under the theme “Question Everything But Yourself.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

In his sophomore feature, Fabbro, who previously directed the 2021 romantic thriller “The Grand Bolero,” juxtaposes the quiet grace of Igor’s modest life with the cacophony and commercialism of contemporary truffle auctions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

Goldstein repeatedly juxtaposes nouns and pronouns in the first and third person: that child... me; she.../... herself; I... someone else.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Their snobbery is juxtaposed with Carney’s friend and colleague Pepper’s unsettling bluntness and eyeball to eyeball stare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

This is on top of a previous £10.5m investment shared by the three English sites with juxtaposed border controls.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Video of these rattling sets, juxtaposed against Pop-A-Shot games, swiftly made the rounds on social media.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

But it is a perfect example of the kind of stories we are going to start seeing juxtaposed with Hegseth’s grotesque rhetoric in these first few days of the war.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

The smell of home juxtaposed with the sweaty, breathless odor of desperation and the taste of rust in my mouth.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

This show examines how her output responded to and influenced her teachers and contemporaries by juxtaposing her art with works by Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, Peter Voulkos and others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

So juxtaposing that line with footage of the adult Yellowjackets being threatened with evidence of their shared past — again — could be a misdirect.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025

The morning show also played a viral clip of typically silent Barron speaking, juxtaposing it with a clip of him as an eight-year-old.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

Since then, internet users have used juxtaposing images of Dikeç next to his competitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

“They are now juxtaposing their typical day against this new feeling, what it feels like to not have cortisol going through the roof,” he says.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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