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.
contrastverb (used with object)to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of.
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
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
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
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 American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville