disjunction
Example Sentences
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In both memoirs, there’s a touching disjunction between the face on the cover and the voice in your ear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
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
It was meant admiringly, and Schjeldahl is absolutely right: A disjunction between intentions and effects can produce aesthetic dynamite.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 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
Vocabulary lists containing disjunction
junct, join
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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The Winter's Tale
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