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  • verb Present participle of counterpose.

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Examples

  • Jobs introduces the legendary 1984 commercial -- developed by the Don Drapers of Chiat/Day and directed by Ridley Scott, played two days earlier during the Super Bowl -- counterposing Macintosh to the corporatist paradigm warned of by George Orwell.

    William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon William Bradley 2011

  • Jobs introduces the legendary 1984 commercial -- developed by the Don Drapers of Chiat/Day and directed by Ridley Scott, played two days earlier during the Super Bowl -- counterposing Macintosh to the corporatist paradigm warned of by George Orwell.

    William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon William Bradley 2011

  • The $4 for $1 myth was created by incorrectly counterposing total collections with expenditures on enforcement.

    Glenn Sacks: New Obama/Bayh/Davis 'Fatherhood' Bill Helps Bureaucrats, Not Dads 2009

  • Jules Boykoff gave an elaborate presentation with a slide carousel projecting images in each of two walls, a long poem which involved, among many other components, counterposing the names of conference participants, and brief quotes from our works, with the names of our celebrity "doubles."

    Archive 2008-09-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • Jules Boykoff gave an elaborate presentation with a slide carousel projecting images in each of two walls, a long poem which involved, among many other components, counterposing the names of conference participants, and brief quotes from our works, with the names of our celebrity "doubles."

    Conference Carousel Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • Hunter uses the senses repeatedly in this lyric, evoking how it is we know "reality," and then counterposing the sensual world to the spiritual realm: the attics -- "upstairs" -- which contain the inner world of dreams.

    The Annotated "Attics of My Life" Robert Hunter 2005

  • Koster's design ideas went wrong when they got awkwardly stitched in late Beta to counterposing designs, when the center could not hold.

    Order 66 2005

  • Koster's design ideas went wrong when they got awkwardly stitched in late Beta to counterposing designs, when the center could not hold.

    November 2005 2005

  • The Central Committee is vigorously opposed to any conception of counterposing the Party or the 'communists' to the rest of the movement.

    SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, ANC NEC MEMBER, AT THE PARTY SCHOOL OF THE SACP IN MEMORY OF THE LATE SACP VETERAN, ALPHEUS MALIVHA 2002

  • Irresponsible slogans, political incitement, a gamble on the artificial counterposing and clashing of interests and on the squeezing out of certain nations by others, and appeals and actions of this sort could lead to a universal disaster. . .

    Making the History of 1989 1989

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