How to Use in marked contrast to in a Sentence

in marked contrast to

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• Kneeland’s experience stands in marked contrast to the state as a whole.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• Such comments stand in marked contrast to the sentiments of most business leaders.
  — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
• In subsequent years, Snoop has enjoyed mainstream acceptance in marked contrast to his ’90s persona.
  — David Lindquist, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
• The uproar in the House was in marked contrast to the opening day of the Senate, where seven new members were sworn in and senators then quietly adjourned for three weeks.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• This diversity stands in marked contrast to many neighborhood public schools that reflect the population of the surrounding neighborhoods.
  — David Buice, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2021
• Since 1945, there have been very few successful acts of aggression of this sort, in marked contrast to before then, when borders around the world changed hands routinely because of war and conquest.
  — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• The violence is psychological and rarely fatal, in marked contrast to that in Sophocles’s work (in other words, nobody gouges out their eyes after having mistakenly slept with their own mother).
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
• Treasury’s willingness to absolve the Bahamas of responsibility for facilitating tax avoidance stands in marked contrast to more recent efforts, in which stigmatizing tax havens as bad actors has become almost the norm.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• This plays in marked contrast to the comments of feminists, including Betty Friedan in an archival interview, looking favorably on the Beatles for eschewing macho behaviors and showing softness.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
• Nestled on a busy North London high street brimming with corner stores, betting shops, and cafés, Etles’s bright-blue exterior stands in marked contrast to much of its surroundings—a differentiation befitting of its distinctive offerings.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2020
• The salts used as primary coolant, mostly lithium-beryllium fluoride and lithium fluoride, remain liquid without pressurization from about 500°C to about 1400°C, in marked contrast to a PWR, which operates at about 315°C under 150 atmospheres of pressure.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025