as in differing
to be unlike; to not be the same
her depressed mood today contrasts sharply with her good spirits yesterday
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Recent Examples of contrasting
Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
With his irreverent attitude, Girbaud reinterpreted them by putting contrasting stitches on a back pocket and adding a metal piercing embellishment in the three dots that make for the lowkey logo marking Létrange’s offerings.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
After all, the moody duet features the gorgeously contrasting tones of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with Swift's more delicate vocals as the two portray exes who are parsing what went wrong in their relationship.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
In part, the contrasting results show the importance of how survey questions are worded.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Waltman hand-carves each of her patterns and uses slip and ash glaze to add contrasting tones.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Invite someone from marketing, IT or finance to your team meeting to gain their perspective and leverage their contrasting and complementary strengths.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
The balance of textures, sweet and salty flavors, and contrasting temperatures did not escape my young palate.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Zhao is in London promoting her newest film Hamnet, starring Irish talent Mescal as William Shakespeare and Buckley as his wife, Agnes, who are thrown into contrasting experiences of grief following the death of their young son, Hamnet.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
The players took contrasting routes to the final.
—James Hansen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The contrasting stripes along the full-zip jacket and wide-leg pants gives the set an athletic touch, while the relaxed fit helps keep you comfortable through long flights.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
The Amazon founder extended this logic to job-seeking, contrasting active and passive approaches to unemployment.
—Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
For the special occasion, the Beckhams did family coords in shades of black and white with some subtle contrasting color additions.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
But Brennan and Murphy find thought-provoking tension in these imbalances, contrasting our disinterest in keeping up with America’s imperialist destruction with our never-ending fascination with Gein’s brutality and depravity.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
The national soccer teams of Argentina and Venezuela enter their friendly match at Hard Rock Stadium on Friday night in starkly contrasting situations.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
With his irreverent attitude, Girbaud reinterpreted them by putting contrasting stitches on a back pocket and adding a metal piercing embellishment in the three dots that make for the lowkey logo marking Létrange’s offerings.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
After all, the moody duet features the gorgeously contrasting tones of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with Swift's more delicate vocals as the two portray exes who are parsing what went wrong in their relationship.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
In part, the contrasting results show the importance of how survey questions are worded.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Waltman hand-carves each of her patterns and uses slip and ash glaze to add contrasting tones.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Invite someone from marketing, IT or finance to your team meeting to gain their perspective and leverage their contrasting and complementary strengths.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The winners represent contrasting but complementary approaches to economics.
—CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
The balance of textures, sweet and salty flavors, and contrasting temperatures did not escape my young palate.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Zhao is in London promoting her newest film Hamnet, starring Irish talent Mescal as William Shakespeare and Buckley as his wife, Agnes, who are thrown into contrasting experiences of grief following the death of their young son, Hamnet.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
The players took contrasting routes to the final.
—James Hansen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The contrasting stripes along the full-zip jacket and wide-leg pants gives the set an athletic touch, while the relaxed fit helps keep you comfortable through long flights.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
The Amazon founder extended this logic to job-seeking, contrasting active and passive approaches to unemployment.
—Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
For the special occasion, the Beckhams did family coords in shades of black and white with some subtle contrasting color additions.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
But Brennan and Murphy find thought-provoking tension in these imbalances, contrasting our disinterest in keeping up with America’s imperialist destruction with our never-ending fascination with Gein’s brutality and depravity.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contrasting
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Perhaps differing from the stereotypical English student experience of nights out, hangovers and last-minute revision, this is where some of the country’s finest athletic prospects train.—
Eduardo Tansley,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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The differing strategies have far-reaching implications for the early pecking order in the nascent autonomous-driving space, which some analysts and investors say could become a multitrillion-dollar market over the next 15 years.—
Chris Kirkham,
Nashville Tennessean,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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While malls generally prohibit firearms of any kind inside, businesses along public streets face a different situation.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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Stephanie Gioia-Beckman, a senior director at the Policy & Innovation Center, noted that all of these different job classifications require many hours of supervised work in addition to classroom instruction.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And Tucker Carlson has gained attention with his own programming distributed via social and digital media, Their audiences can be smaller and more disparate than the ones that come to mainstream news outlets, but in an era of cord-cutting, their niche power is not to be dismissed.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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What this means is the landscape of public health is very fragmented, and people are making choices based on very disparate beliefs.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Its light blue gingham plaid is made of cotton fabric, and the stocking is adorned with a mint green bow for a contrasted look.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Though D’Angelo only released three albums in his lifetime, his beloved 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, followed by 2000’s Voodoo and 2014’s Black Messiah, Hill wrote that the singer’s aching vulnerability and incomparable passion moved, and inspired, the culture.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
15 Oct. 2025
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Alice In Chains’ Mike Inez and Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, all reflecting on Ozzy’s incomparable musical impact.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Contrasting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contrasting. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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