disjunction

Example Sentences

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He isn’t the first president to face such a disjunction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

It’s tempting to point out the disjunction between the author’s fundamental outsider stance and his postmortem embrace by the institutional intelligentsia.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Through the disjunction between the narration and the street scenes, Akerman in effect divides viewers’ attentions the way hers were presumably divided.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

That disjunction between family lore and Hollywood reality compelled him to write his new book, “Competing With Idiots,” a subjective dual portrait of the Brothers Mankiewicz.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021

Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy