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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.

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Home cooking is the sort of food that tells a story, either of the families we come from or conversely, the person we are in contradistinction to the families we come from, and that food is not about technique and it's not about tap dancing your way into applause.

From Salon

It is this more easygoing Lucretian, Baconian, Charltonian approach which eventually became that of the Royal Society and of eighteenth-century science, in contradistinction to the far bolder one of Montaigne and Descartes.

In contradistinction to "essential health care worker."

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.

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

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