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Recent Examples of asymmetry
Clarkson was aware of this rare asymmetry in snails from her work with the magazine New Zealand Geographic.
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Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been characterized by a basic asymmetry: The international recognition of Jewish national rights in Palestine has never been matched by a demand for Palestinian national rights.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Policymakers should protect this asymmetry jealously.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Scholars and other close observers of presidential politics have tended to obscure this asymmetry.
—Terry M. Moe, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been characterized by a basic asymmetry: The international recognition of Jewish national rights in Palestine has never been matched by a demand for Palestinian national rights.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Policymakers should protect this asymmetry jealously.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Scholars and other close observers of presidential politics have tended to obscure this asymmetry.
—Terry M. Moe, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for asymmetry
Noun
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Researchers emphasize the urgent need for habitat restoration and monitoring to address the detrimental imbalances caused by the disaster.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Other new books flaunt the virtues of the best jokes: disproportion, meticulous verbal pacing, a knowhow about readerly expectations and the guts to outrun them.—
Christopher Spaide
August 1,
Literary Hub,
1 Aug. 2025
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Between the assassination in Sarajevo, the mass slaughter in the trenches, and the stagnant front lines lie disproportions so immense that cause and effect lose all relation.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Leaders have since reached an agreement to de-escalate tensions, temporarily lowering the duties to 30% on the United States’ side and 10% on China’s part.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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Both nations' military deployments indicate that the region could remain a potential flashpoint, with further operations or incidents possibly escalating tensions.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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The disunity within Ukraine comes at a time when Russian forces are escalating large-scale missile and drone strikes in Kyiv and across the country.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
23 July 2025
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This disunity has prevented the EU from using its immense leverage to good effect.—
Josep Borrell Fontelles,
Foreign Affairs,
27 June 2025
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“Asymmetry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asymmetry. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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