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View definitions for contradistinction

contradistinction

noun as in opposition

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That’s why, in total contradistinction to the facts, most people thought and continue to think that the economy was much better under Trump than under Obama and Biden-Harris.

From Salon

I don't think my parents grew into who they were in contradistinction to each other - she quiet because he noisy and vice versa.

From BBC

And that is what they are—in contradistinction to a monarch’s glorious orange and black.

In contradistinction to the endearing at-home photos of their kids, McGraw and Hill featured, in video, images that looked like outtakes from a perfume ad.

Greenblatt writes that the Genesis narratives of the Creation and Flood were written in contradistinction to the Babylonian narratives they resemble, to assert and preserve Hebrew religious culture.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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