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dichotomy

[dahy-kot-uh-mee] / daɪˈkɒt ə mi /


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The series also poses one routine dichotomy after another.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

"It's bohemian but it's also populated by some of the richest people in the world. It's a strange dichotomy."

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

That dichotomy proved controversial because it left certain programs, like graduate-level training for nurses and physician assistants, out of the group of professions eligible for the higher limits.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

"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

But the dichotomy of love and disdain living side-by-side is what surprises me.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

It doesn’t seem nearly as big as the dot-com bubble, and the dichotomies don’t seem extreme, as in the 1990s.

From Barron's Feb. 26, 2026

That’s one of the dichotomies of Casyette’s music.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2024

The last Burning Man I attended was in 2016 but even then the cracks in the foundation were beginning to show the dichotomies of the festival’s dystopian utopia.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2023

Oh, and I do have one final question: Doesn’t the Christian quadrilateral protect us from the false dichotomies you imply?

From Washington Times Jun. 20, 2023

Jefferson’s mind consistently saw the world in terms of clashing dichotomies: Whigs versus Tories; moderns versus ancients; America versus Europe; rural conditions versus urban; whites versus blacks.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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