apposition
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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
The phrase "able Christus" was used in apposition to Anton Lang, the Oberammergau actor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Care should be taken in forming the possessives of phrases containing nouns in apposition, or similar compound phrases.
From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Rhetoric
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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