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

Guest curator Alissa Anderson Campbell identifies the artist’s radical political views, but their disjunction with his commitment to traditional, even conservative painting styles remains a conundrum.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2022

It was meant admiringly, and Schjeldahl is absolutely right: A disjunction between intentions and effects can produce aesthetic dynamite.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

Thank you for helping us to awaken from that disjunction and please, for our sake, go deeper.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2021

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