dichotomy
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"But what we saw was a real dichotomy between the weather on both sides of the planet, and huge differences in cloud coverage, and that changes our whole picture of the planet."
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
“It’s really a dichotomy when you look at the consumer,” said Ken Mahoney, chief executive of Mahoney Asset Management.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
That dichotomy of rising crude and soaring U.S. stocks, however, doesn’t faze Jean Boivin, who heads BlackRock’s Investment Institute.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
This is a false dichotomy, which Katie Miller knows all too well.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 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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