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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
counterpose .
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Examples
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Perhaps you mean counterposed rather than dichotomous.
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I mean dichotomous but counterposed works as well I guess. peace
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The act of creating is not dichotomous with theories of how the Solar System formed from a stellar nebula. fifth monarchy man: I mean dichotomous but counterposed works as well I guess.
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The adjective “autocrat” was reserved for absolutist tsars and caliphs, and it was not counterposed to democratic rule but rather to republican and constitutional forms of government.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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Of course, the point of the proverb was that fire is indeed dangerous — but the dangerousness was conveyed by implication from “bad master,” and was counterposed to the value stressed by “good servant.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force” 2010
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ID and evolution are often counterposed, but they are hardly dichotomous.
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Themes of reconciliation and universal harmony, such as Alberti's concinnitas and Cusa's coincidentia oppositorum, were counterposed to a litany of crises in faith, politics, and scholarship.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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And the chosen Israelites are counterposed to the sinful Amorites.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In 1824, a political jingle had counterposed “John Quincy Adams / Who can write” to “Andrew Jackson / Who can fight,” and in this contrast it was the polymath Adams, not the barely literate Jackson, who stood in the line of Jefferson.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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The Giaour, by contrast, imagines murdering Leila in the name of a love described as unique and personal and thus deliberately counterposed to all traditions.
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