dichotomy
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“The Sovereign AI movement is imposing the most dramatic dichotomy between haves and have nots that I have witnessed in 30 years of business,” Karp says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Much of the matter in these early episodes is assigned to establishing the potato-potahto dichotomy of their hastily entered relationship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Pre-college admissions scandal, Huffman was enjoying a career boost on “Desperate Housewives,” and the movie marketing played with the dichotomy between her hyper-feminine public image and the film’s depiction of transfemininity.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
That dichotomy proved controversial because it left certain programs, like graduate-level training for nurses and physician assistants, out of the group of professions eligible for the higher limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Another supposed dichotomy that becomes blurred in reality is a distinction between food producers as active managers of their land and hunter-gatherers as mere collectors of the land’s wild produce.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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It doesn’t seem nearly as big as the dot-com bubble, and the dichotomies don’t seem extreme, as in the 1990s.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
That’s one of the dichotomies of Casyette’s music.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
The last Burning Man I attended was in 2016 but even then the cracks in the foundation were beginning to show the dichotomies of the festival’s dystopian utopia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Collapsing those false dichotomies is as much the role of the leader as enshrining core values, setting a strategy and inspiring action.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023
The alleged controversy is as bogus as other catchy dichotomies such as nature versus nurture and America: Love It or Leave It.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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