juxtapose

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TOOBIN: That's true, but what you have to do is juxtapose the transcript against the arrest report, which -- where Karsnia reports on what happened between them.

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  1. transitive verb To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

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  • TOOBIN: That's true, but what you have to do is juxtapose the transcript against the arrest report, which -- where Karsnia reports on what happened between them. —  CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007
  • That image, when you juxtapose that against an effort to work with the poor -- look at it, it's a big house -- is that -- is that image a hard thing to get around for you as you try to make this appeal that you're a man of the people, of the poor people? —  CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006
  • And then juxtapose that with your reaction once you found out they finished second. —  CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2002
  • And then juxtapose that with what happened after the Bill Richardson endorsement of Barack Obama. —  CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2008
  • You know you put these pictures up of Rihanna, a beautiful young woman, juxtapose those pictures with her when she's all glammed up at any of these media events, and sure, there's a feeding frenzy. —  CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009
 

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  1. French juxtaposer : Latin iūxtā, close by; see yeug- in Indo-European roots + French poser, to place (from Old French; see pose1).

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  1. from French juxtaposer, from Latin juxta, near (see just), + ponere, place: see pose.
 

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/dʒəkstəˈpoʊz/
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