juxtapositions
- plural of juxtaposition.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Romm emphasizes this through close juxtapositions: From Diphilus, a fourth-century comic writer, we learn that “time is a strange craftsman; it refashions all of us but makes us always worse.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
In a preface, the film director Guillermo del Toro likens this collection to early modern cabinets of curiosities, whose juxtapositions of natural and artificial objects were meant to expose a hidden order of existence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Could we then define L.A. music as simply be music of, and open to, juxtapositions?
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
