disjunction

Example Sentences

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There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

It is a story of motherhood and disjunction, of self-making and villainy, of a remarkable power depicted and deployed on an intimate scale.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

“There’s a pretty sharp disjunction with some sectors bearing the brunt of the cooling we’ve seen in the labor market,” said Guy Berger, principal economist at LinkedIn.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

Thank you for helping us to awaken from that disjunction and please, for our sake, go deeper.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 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