in contrast

prepositional phrase

Contrarily.

“Spain, in contrast, is much more centralized.”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Contrarily.

    Spain, in contrast, is much more centralized.

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    She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

    1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1

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“in contrast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20contrast. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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