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Recent Examples of asymmetry
The central factor is the growing power asymmetry between China and India, and Beijing demanding deference within Asia—a hierarchy India resists.
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Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
The contrast is a study in asymmetry.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Today, bilateral trade reflects both the depth and the asymmetry of this partnership.
—Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Clarkson was aware of this rare asymmetry in snails from her work with the magazine New Zealand Geographic.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
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Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
The contrast is a study in asymmetry.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Today, bilateral trade reflects both the depth and the asymmetry of this partnership.
—Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Clarkson was aware of this rare asymmetry in snails from her work with the magazine New Zealand Geographic.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for asymmetry
Noun
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The haziness of the energy balance hides this brief imbalance, which allows the virtual particles to influence the real world.—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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This imbalance between supply and demand, with sellers outnumbering buyers by more than 500,000, has helped shift many markets in favor of the latter.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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The state avoided that sort of catastrophe, but the tensions inside its prisons between those confined and those paid to watch them seeped into the outside world, commanding the attention of reporters and the scrutiny of political leaders.—
Jennifer Gonnerman,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Between them stretches the long expanse of the table—a zone of tension, where the celestial mission of knowledge collides with the earthly reality of budgets.—
Rick Burton,
Sportico.com,
6 Oct. 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 7 Oct. 2025.
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