transposition
Example Sentences
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"The transposition of the Paris agreement into company statutes would open a field of potentially huge and dangerous legal disputes," Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told shareholders in a mostly empty room.
From Reuters
Gordon went to his house upstate and rewrote, making changes up until the production was frozen ahead of critics previews, nips here, transpositions there.
From Seattle Times
“Tractor,” in its dementedly literal-minded transposition of abandoned machinery into intense, aesthetic presence, is also marvelous.
From Washington Post
This week: Write an original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism, the transposition of the beginnings of different words, as in the entries above from our 1995 contest.
From Washington Post
He has suggested that the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan is “a simple transposition of critical race theory’s basic tenets.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
