juxtapose

[ juhk-stuh-pohz, juhk-stuh-pohz ]

/ ˈdʒʌk stəˌpoʊz, ˌdʒʌk stəˈpoʊz /

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verb (used with object), jux·ta·posed, jux·ta·pos·ing.

to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

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Origin of juxtapose

First recorded in 1850–55; back formation from juxtaposition

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Example sentences from the Web for juxtapose

This technique allowed Mehring to juxtapose color fields — in this case, gold and blue — with simple geometric shapes.
In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA|Mark Jenkins|November 20, 2020|Washington Post
This metaphor raises a lot of questions when juxtaposed with the rest of the lyrics of the song.
R. Kelly’s Craziest Lyrics From ‘Black Panties,’ Analyzed|Chancellor Agard|December 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And at Waddesdon Manor last year, items were placed in certain places, juxtaposed with objects that look entirely different.
The Writer and the Potter: Edmund De Waal on his New York Debut|Iain Millar|September 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And, while there are many startlingly violent scenes, they are juxtaposed with beauteous ones.
‘12 Years a Slave,’ Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender, Is Mesmerizing|Marlow Stern|August 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST

It is against their wholeness that the incomplete impressions of the recent past or present are juxtaposed.
Resurrecting Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini’s ‘And the Mountains Echoed’|Rafia Zakaria|May 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He also noted that vintage detail, when juxtaposed with an otherwise modern world, “enhances the weirdness of their relationship.”
‘Bates Motel’: Freddie Highmore Talks Sex, Incest, and Young Norman Bates|Anna Klassen|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When colours are juxtaposed, they become influenced as to their hue.
Principles of Decorative Design|Christopher Dresser
It is known that juxtaposed colors generally enrich one another and this phenomenon is known as simultaneous contrast.
Artificial Light|M. Luckiesh
The most free and ruddy and brave of his pages are juxtaposed with some of the most soft and timid.
Musical Portraits|Paul Rosenfeld
In other juxtaposed twins the plane of composition is, however, not necessarily the twin-plane.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7|Various
When they were together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy

British Dictionary definitions for juxtapose

juxtapose

/ (ˌdʒʌkstəˈpəʊz) /

verb

(tr) to place close together or side by side

Derived forms of juxtapose

juxtaposition, nounjuxtapositional, adjective

Word Origin for juxtapose

C19: back formation from juxtaposition, from Latin juxta next to + position

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