striking contrast
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrikingandcontrast
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striking
adjective
uk/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/
very unusual or easily noticed, and therefore attracting a lot ...
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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 ofstrikingandcontrastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is astrikingcontrastbetween this hasty launching of tuberculin and the careful launching of the diphtheria antitoxin three years later.
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Whatever their roles, this committee of three, makes astrikingcontrastwith the 1993 group of twenty-two.
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But in spite of this, astrikingcontrastappears between monkeys in their natural conditions and monkeys in captivity.
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Moreover, there is astrikingcontrastin descriptions of those places which did or did not make the grade in 1780.
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Instrikingcontrastto the adverse public perception of parametric reforms, the drawbacks involved with pension privatisation were easier to conceal.
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Here the evidence is instrikingcontrastto the presupposition.
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This was instrikingcontrastto the radiographic cardiac silhouette, which suggested a left-sided heart.
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This is instrikingcontrastto the familiar downstream growing boundary layer and downstream viscous wake existing when the fluid is homogeneous.
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The latter two stand instrikingcontrastto the situation in the measure-preserving category.
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Instrikingcontrast, shared environmental influences did not vary as a function of age.
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This was instrikingcontrastto the more normative couple dancing (which continued to thrive, see later).
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At present, data are stored systematically but this finding is instrikingcontrastto former times.
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This in turn interacted with a building boom which, instrikingcontrastto earlier years, was financed largely from government funds.
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These results are instrikingcontrastto those for the annual and quarterly data, and there are at least two ways to interpret them.
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It is instrikingcontrastto other disciplines, where language is used to mask the fundamental truths of present-day reality.
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This is instrikingcontrastto the behaviour of other cell adhesion molecules which have been examined at these stages.
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This was instrikingcontrastto their real situation, since widows tend to be a particularly deprived group in basic health and nutrition.
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