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dichotomy

noun as in division

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This is a dichotomy hatched by Ailes, who realized that he could get away with lunacy at night if he balanced it with something approaching sanity during the day.

This dichotomy between nucleated and nonnucleated life became fundamental to biology.

Even Powell’s attacks on Republican leaders hew to that dichotomy.

Despite that dichotomy, every major decision must be agreed upon by both of us.

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Work by University of Oxford anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse suggests that rituals exist on either side of a dichotomy.

Both heroines are women, but they offer a pretty bizarre dichotomy for girls: Ice queen or ditzy princess.

To be sure, there is often a stark dichotomy between so-called opinion leaders and rank and file believers.

This is the baffling, awkward dichotomy that is MTV in 2014.

No, the whole point of a superhero with a secret identity is the dichotomy.

It was this dichotomy that made Don a fascinating, layered character.

This phenomenon may be explained by what Semon calls alternating ecphoria in mnemic dichotomy.

Similarly, the engram of the ecphoriated dichotomy is most often that which has been previously most often repeated.

The nature of the universe is proved too subtle for this dichotomy.

Therefore, discovery of an early dichotomy from the common ancestral stock of the tribe would come as no surprise.

There is a term in logic—dichotomy—a sharp division, a cutting in two, an opposing of contradictories.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dichotomy, such as: difference of opinion, difference, disagreement, disunion, separation, and split.

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

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