juxtapose

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

That inspired Juson to juxtapose the humanity of Black people against the words that sought to dehumanize them.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

She finds absurd photos on the internet to juxtapose with canonical paintings that happen to be similar.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

What I wanted to do was stay in that conversation and just juxtapose the material of metal with natural fabrics: a cotton shirt, leather jacket, leather pants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

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

Ms. Farris juxtaposes the pursuit of her caregivers—who are trying to hold on to some semblance of adult life as best they can—with the general chaos that accompanies child-raising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Johnson added: "It juxtaposes with the historic Johnny Haynes stand which was designed by a hero of the sports architectural industry, Archibald Leitch."

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

Post-Holocaust memoirs are often quest stories, and Dunthorne juxtaposes his attempts to uncover the truth, or some approximation of it, with a fragmentary narrative of Siegfried Merzbacher’s life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

The spokesperson said it’s understandable for reporters to ask questions about the conflicts, “but out of fairness, it should be juxtaposed by the fact that there’s been no indication of favorable treatment.”

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

In the film, Orban's words are juxtaposed with interviews with around 20 figures across 14 of Hungary's 19 counties, from the south to the north-east.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Ama’s smile flashes through my mind, juxtaposed with the smile Grandma used to give me when she was still alive.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Suozzi and Moolenaar kicked off the 2020 NPB with a running shtick — juxtaposing their backgrounds.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

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

Its visual storytelling is near-monochromatic, juxtaposing light and darkness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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

By juxtaposing the pieces of paper against each other and overlapping one color with another, one can almost produce every shade of color.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee