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Six example sentences with dichotomy, each labelled with its topic.
Students arrive believing in a clean dichotomy between mind and body, and the seminar spends ten weeks unsettling it.
Philosophy
The mayor rejected the usual dichotomy of jobs versus clean air, arguing the harbor project delivered both.
Politics
The script sets up a tidy dichotomy of hero and villain, then spends its final act dissolving it.
Movies
Textbooks present a dichotomy between saving and spending, though most households do a little of both in the same week.
Economics
The nature versus nurture dichotomy has faded, since researchers now find genes and upbringing shaping each other.
Psychology
Scouts still lean on the dichotomy of scorer versus playmaker, even though the best guards in the league are both.
Basketball
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