How to Use dichotomy in a Sentence
dichotomy
noun
- Her essay discusses the dichotomy between good and evil in the author's novels.
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The film will hone in on the dichotomy of fame — to be seen by all but known by none.
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Emily Maskell,
Vulture,
26 Oct. 2022
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Well, this is the kind of strange dichotomy of how it’s turned out.
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Time,
6 Nov. 2022
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It’s the dichotomy of what is shown to Wall Street and to the tax man.
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Erik Sherman,
Forbes,
7 Apr. 2021
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As far as she is concerned, the dichotomy between the stage and the page is a false one.
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Mariah Tauger,
Los Angeles Times,
20 July 2022
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The dichotomy of long versus short hair is tricky in the summer.
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Megan Decker,
refinery29.com,
25 May 2021
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Swift isn't the first pop singer to call out this troubling dichotomy.
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Christopher Rosa,
Glamour,
23 Aug. 2019
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Elliott does nothing to tone down the butch-femme dichotomy in the work.
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Rachel Aviv,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2018
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The constant switching and dichotomies gave me more than just something to write about.
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Fresh U,
Teen Vogue,
12 Dec. 2017
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The art-and-craft dichotomy is just one of Raja’s themes.
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BostonGlobe.com,
24 Oct. 2019
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Labored scenes carry an urgency and point to the dichotomy of the era.
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Holly Jones,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2023
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Does the world always have to end up being placed into such a dichotomy?
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
4 June 2022
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Has any creature borne the burden of this historic dichotomy as long and painfully as the horse?
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Margaret Wappler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Aug. 2021
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And this dichotomy is the main reason for the near-unrivalled wonder of this game.
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SI.com,
30 Oct. 2019
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Muti takes note of a strange dichotomy, even a laughable one.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 June 2023
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But one of the biggest drugmakers may have set iself up for that kind of dichotomy.
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Ed Silverman,
STAT,
3 July 2022
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There’s a big dichotomy between the amount of work available for gig workers.
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Carolyn Said,
SFChronicle.com,
24 Mar. 2020
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Beyond the box score, the matchup cast light on the intriguing dichotomy between their games.
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Jeremy Woo,
SI.com,
29 Jan. 2018
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That dichotomy, played for laughs, points to serious blind spots in his view of life.
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Orange County Register,
5 Apr. 2017
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This guy’s been a major league starter, but with that there’s a little bit of a dichotomy.
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Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
26 July 2019
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Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear.
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Emily Burack,
Town & Country,
30 Aug. 2022
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But some researchers argue that this is a false dichotomy.
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James Gorman,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2020
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When a body is reduced, all at once, to a crude dichotomy of hot and cold, what happens to your soul?
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Virginia Heffernan,
Wired,
10 Dec. 2020
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Think about that dichotomy and the values that that represents.
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
28 Mar. 2022
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Other teams will have to figure out how to offset that dichotomy.
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Bob Ford,
Philly.com,
27 Sep. 2017
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The clash couldn't have featured a starker dichotomy in fighting style.
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NOLA.com,
15 Aug. 2017
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On the field, there has been no such dichotomy, no hint of apprehension.
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Dom Amore,
courant.com,
10 July 2017
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The truth, of course, is that the soccer/football dichotomy is really quite a new thing.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
22 Dec. 2023
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So there’s just this weird dichotomy and there has to be education there.
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Adam Butler,
National Geographic,
27 Jan. 2016
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Of course, every good doctor can code-switch to some degree, and today the old dichotomies break down.
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Laura Kolbe,
WSJ,
14 Nov. 2018
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