marked contrast
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarkedandcontrast
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marked
adjective
uk/mɑːkt/us/mɑːrkt/
A marked change or difference in behaviour or in a situation is very obvious ...
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contrast
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkɒn.trɑːst/us/ˈkɑːn.træst/
an obvious difference between two or ...
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(Definition ofmarkedandcontrastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmarked contrast
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Note that this is inmarkedcontrastwith the development of você.
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There is amarkedcontrastbetween presentation of experimental work, and presentation of modelling work.
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For low frequency terms, however, there is amarkedcontrastbetween colour and natural kind terms in children's production (and also comprehension).
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This too was inmarkedcontrastto the conduct of planning before the devaluation.
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Following the rules of choral responsion, the antistrophe matches the metrical pattern of the strophe, echoing its melody while also introducing amarkedcontrastthematically.
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This is amarkedcontrastto switching amplifiers.
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This is inmarkedcontrastto the rates found here for these antibiotics (21.4 and 51.78 % respectively).
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This is inmarkedcontrastto the traditional emphasis on static innate knowledge representations and its marginalization of the process of developmental change.
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Themarkedcontrastnoted in the survey between some of the sites of this period suggests that there was probably a hierarchy among them.
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However, the situation when learning a foreign language stands inmarkedcontrast.
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One participant expressed themarkedcontrastin the ways that she felt before a dance and when she entered the dance hall.
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This funding system is inmarkedcontrastto hospital-based health services where multidisciplinary teams are routinely paid for by the health region.
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The prominence of religion in 1799 would provide amarkedcontrastto later rebellion.
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These small differences stand inmarkedcontrastto the time difference commonly found in metacontrast.
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The behaviour of our thin round jet is inmarkedcontrastto the corresponding plane flow.
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Here, there is amarkedcontrastacross the two orientations towards government.
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They are inmarkedcontrastto the rhetoric of private investment and private returns.
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At least fifty-five figures would have adorned the new edition inmarkedcontrastto the original, unillustrated volume.
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This finding stands inmarkedcontrastto previous studies in which fertility has been found to outrun expectations.
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