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
These false dichotomies are exhausting.
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Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
Desai’s multipart meet-cute lets her challenge neat old-world–new-world dichotomies.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
Desai’s multipart meet-cute lets her challenge neat old-world–new-world dichotomies.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dichotomies
paradoxes
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Thin lids of ice could have sheltered lakes on ancient Mars and kept surface water liquid even as the Red Planet's climate became freezing, according to new research that could solve one of the greater paradoxes of Martian history.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Those paradoxes of her personality?—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Dichotomies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomies. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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