disjunction

Example Sentences

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He isn’t the first president to face such a disjunction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

“There’s a pretty sharp disjunction with some sectors bearing the brunt of the cooling we’ve seen in the labor market,” said Guy Berger, principal economist at LinkedIn.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

This disjunction from reality can border on disdain for it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

Through the disjunction between the narration and the street scenes, Akerman in effect divides viewers’ attentions the way hers were presumably divided.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee