apposition

Example Sentences

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They’ve cohered through wet-on-wet mixing into a strange, alienating hybrid color, made even stranger by the apposition of equally thick background strokes of soiled coral.

From New York Times

But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.

From New York Times

The united probe glows wherever two organelles come into close apposition.

From Nature

In her analysis of the causes of repression in her society, Ms. Alexeyeva consistently disputed any neat apposition of Russian despots and Western democratic leaders.

From New York Times

With its unbalanced nouns in apposition, the film’s title hints at the absurdity of the way human beings think.

From The New Yorker