contrast

Example Sentences

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The stock rose 1.4% in premarket trading, in contrast to declines in shares of rivals Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

From MarketWatch

By contrast, “U.S. equities have always outperformed inflation” over such a time frame, he noted, as tracked in the chart below.

From MarketWatch

Although her colorful blue eyes and long yellow curls were in sharp contrast to my murky brown peepers and cropped, coffee-colored hair.

From Literature

Aim for contrast — soft and crisp, sweet and bitter, warm and cool.

From Salon

In contrast, the team behind CytoDiffusion demonstrated that their approach can recognize the full range of normal blood cell appearances and reliably flag rare or unusual cells that may signal disease.

From Science Daily