Thesaurus results for DICHOTOMIES

dichotomies

noun

plural of dichotomy

as in paradoxes

someone or something with qualities or features that seem to conflict with one another her outfit is a sartorial dichotomy: an elegant gown and ratty old tennis shoes

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Recent Examples of dichotomies The thing about anamorphic that’s so interesting to me is the relationship within the frame, especially with multiple characters or two characters, showing these parallels and dichotomies. —

Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 My ugliness sat in the middle of the organizing dichotomies on which society rests…threatening its collapse. —

Literary Hub, 7 May 2026 Honestly, everything about Bob Weir was dichotomies. —

Alison Weinflash, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026 Desai’s multipart meet-cute lets her challenge neat old-world–new-world dichotomies. —

Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025 In a country famous for its dichotomies—old and new, conservative and liberal, East and West—there is a generation of creative millennials who, like me, are trying to figure out their own relationship to this culture, while also making their own mark on this multifaceted city. —

Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Aug. 2024

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paradoxes

Noun

Sometimes the irony turns bitter and, with a typically Eastern European sensibility, highlights the paradoxes of institutions, as well as the madness and meanness born from the pursuit and preservation of power.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 June 2026
That conflict sits at the heart of one of climate's most maddening paradoxes.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026