apposition

Example Sentences

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But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019

The united probe glows wherever two organelles come into close apposition.

From Nature • Mar. 10, 2019

In the most beautiful apposition of two of the simplest words in our language: the freedom of speech.”

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 16, 2011

He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another supposed distinction is that living beings are nourished by intussusception, whereas crystals increase by apposition.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane