contrast
verb (used with object)
to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of.
am contrasting
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present progressiveof contrast (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am contrasting this broad overgeneralization to the reality of the woman that I was falling in love with, okay?
From The Verge ● May 12, 2021
I am no longer comparing the Anglo-American States to foreign nations; but I am contrasting them with each other, and endeavoring to discover why they are so unlike.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
I am contrasting two languages with each other: yet their names are as like as Gallic and Gaelic.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
And now, while I am contrasting the conduct of the North and South, I may as well give another testimony in favor of the confederate system.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
It must be borne in mind, that, in thus speaking, I am contrasting with each other the simple and the reflex assent, which together make up the complex act of certitude.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
