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This disjuncture—a total reassembly of the terms of the story—goes unremarked upon and unexplained.
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Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
Horror stories are often about the disjuncture between appearances and depths and turn on a change in perception: the genteel aristocrat who is in fact a monster, the idyllic town that conceals a dark secret.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
In explaining this disjuncture, hyper-partisanship and filter bubbles surely play some role.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
But that disjuncture is itself revelatory.
—Nicole Hemmer, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
Speaking with reporters after the job figures came out, Joe Biden was careful to acknowledge this disjuncture.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
The disjuncture between story and song only heightens the staccato feeling.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
The occasion was political, of course, coming in an election season and at a moment when French people of color are questioning the disjuncture between the national creed of universalism and their experiences of racial discrimination.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
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Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
Horror stories are often about the disjuncture between appearances and depths and turn on a change in perception: the genteel aristocrat who is in fact a monster, the idyllic town that conceals a dark secret.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
In explaining this disjuncture, hyper-partisanship and filter bubbles surely play some role.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
But that disjuncture is itself revelatory.
—Nicole Hemmer, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
Speaking with reporters after the job figures came out, Joe Biden was careful to acknowledge this disjuncture.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
The disjuncture between story and song only heightens the staccato feeling.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
The occasion was political, of course, coming in an election season and at a moment when French people of color are questioning the disjuncture between the national creed of universalism and their experiences of racial discrimination.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
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“Disjuncture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disjuncture. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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