juxtaposition
Example Sentences
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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
In a preface, the film director Guillermo del Toro likens this collection to early modern cabinets of curiosities, whose juxtapositions of natural and artificial objects were meant to expose a hidden order of existence.
But there is no better way to expose propaganda and cant than by juxtaposition with honest discourse.
From Washington Post
Such a juxtaposition of interest rates, known as a yield curve inversion, has often preceded recessions.
From New York Times
And then the juxtaposition of the way Building 7 fell to the ground — when you put it next to other building collapses that were demolitions, it’s like you’re looking at the same thing.
From New York Times
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