contrastive
adjective
, ˈkän-ˌtra-
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The two women, mostly onstage together, occupy the zones separately, their contrastive presences balanced: Ms. Beiser hot and more sedentary, Ms. Whelan cool but mobile. — Brian Seibert, New York Times, "Review: Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser’s Meditation on 9/11," 1 Aug. 2019 While climbing a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover has come across a crater capable of creating contrastive chemical environments. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Findings in Crater Good Sign for Habitability on Mars," 14 Dec. 2016 The group with contrastive analysis not only discovered something about English. — The Economist, "JohnsonThe importance of proper and improper English," 2 Nov. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'contrastive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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