transposition
Example Sentences
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Gordon went to his house upstate and rewrote, making changes up until the production was frozen ahead of critics previews, nips here, transpositions there.
From Seattle Times
“Tractor,” in its dementedly literal-minded transposition of abandoned machinery into intense, aesthetic presence, is also marvelous.
From Washington Post
This week: Write an original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism, the transposition of the beginnings of different words, as in the entries above from our 1995 contest.
From Washington Post
He has suggested that the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan is “a simple transposition of critical race theory’s basic tenets.”
From Washington Post
It is not the transposition of that well-trod narrative and its character types that compels; it is the contrast sharpened in the act.
From Los Angeles Times
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