Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dichotomizes, or classifies by subdivision into pairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dichotomizes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
dichotomizes .
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Examples
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Nevertheless, this 'dichotomist position' will be called into question when the structural similarity and temporal proximity between these two cases are considered.
Kuo on Nation Building, Yick Wo, and Chinese Exclusion Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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I think that they are both so opposite and so dichotomist in a way that they ` ve found a sort of meeting ground on the other side.
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If we do so, privative terms will be available, which are unavailable to the dichotomist.
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A lot of times we look back on it now, and a lot of the teaching going on, I think as I look at some of the materials, tends to state our struggle in this contentious dichotomist way: Malcolm vs. Martin, and so forth.
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MELISSA HARRIS LACEWELL: Well I don't know that we can be quite so dichotomist as to suggest which is it.
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias Geoffrey Dickens 2010
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Like I was saying, there's something that seems dichotomist about that-turkey or no turkey.
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It is this universal approach - the fact that he is not trapped in a civil-rights-era dichotomist state of mind - that allows Obama to succeed where African-American presidential runners Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton failed.
Stories from The Sun 2008
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