dichotomy

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On top of that, all Fed officials are puzzled by the dichotomy between the weak job market and strong consumer spending.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025

Miller also pointed to the dichotomy of Porter’s terse reaction in the television interview to Porter championing herself in Congress as a fearless and aggressive inquisitor of CEOs and government leaders.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025

This stark dichotomy puts Amina, stunningly sung and acted by Nadine Sierra, into high relief on stage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

There was a dichotomy, and a paradox, about Red Bull under Horner.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

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