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Juxtaposition
"Juxtaposition" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The author's juxtaposition of the two characters highlights their flaws.
The author's juxtaposition of the two characters highlights their differences, but also their similarities.
That last sentence doesn't read well, maybe because of the juxtaposition of a negative and a positive.
It is really quite a moving juxtaposition to see these great traditions speaking to one another.
Polysynthesis is a method of word-building, applicable either to nominals or verbals, which not only employs juxtaposition with aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, etc., but also words, forms of words and significant phonetic elements which have no separate existence apart from such compounds.
It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
Example: mother father instead of mother and father
Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.
A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
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The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.
Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
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