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juxtaposition

[juhk-stuh-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌdΚ’ΚŒk stΙ™ pΙ™ΛˆzΙͺΚƒ Ι™n /


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"This juxtaposition could make it more difficult for Meta to build credibility in an area where it's already a laggard," Smiley added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

“I think the juxtaposition is the point,” Orchison said.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Meagan adds that she enjoys the juxtaposition of the "bravado" of ice hockey mixed with the characters' "vulnerability underneath".

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

The resulting juxtaposition offers a stark symbol of the economic fallout from the Iran war: Sailors are stuck on ships loaded with tens of millions of dollars worth of fertilizer, yet are left rationing food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

In The Magnolia Jungle the juxtaposition of the best of these columns against a background of stark horror gives a striking effect.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Mr. Romm emphasizes this through close juxtapositions: From Diphilus, a fourth-century comic writer, we learn that “time is a strange craftsman; it refashions all of us but makes us always worse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

He provides the pictures and the juxtapositions; a viewer has to make the connections and draw the conclusions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

Could we then define L.A. music as simply be music of, and open to, juxtapositions?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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