as in differed
to be unlike; to not be the same
her depressed mood today contrasts sharply with her good spirits yesterday
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Recent Examples of contrasted
Charna Flam, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Vance cast her comments as proof the administration’s strategy is working, and contrasted them with Democratic leaders elsewhere.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
The signature was widely contrasted with Rowling’s position.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 26 Aug. 2025
Flores contrasted with the Second Circuit letting Goodell arbitrate Tom Brady’s Deflategate case in 2015-16 despite Goodell also acting as the commissioner who suspended the New England Patriots star.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The glint and thrum of Y2K aesthetics—as contrasted with the droning conservatism of the white-collar office—read as anticipatory rather than melancholic, looking toward a future liberated from systems of old.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
Mickelson contrasted that experience with his current mindset at LIV events.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Citron contrasted a chart of Palantir’s impressive, steady revenue growth with OpenAI’s skyrocketing results.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
Château d'Attre is a castle that was built in the late 1700s, and largely influenced by French architecture from Louis XV's era—buildings from this era were characterized by their modest exteriors that deeply contrasted with their lavish interior design.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Meanwhile, his wife, Jackie, contrasted him in a strapless white dress that gathered at the bust and draped to the ground.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Vance cast her comments as proof the administration’s strategy is working, and contrasted them with Democratic leaders elsewhere.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
The signature was widely contrasted with Rowling’s position.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 26 Aug. 2025
Flores contrasted with the Second Circuit letting Goodell arbitrate Tom Brady’s Deflategate case in 2015-16 despite Goodell also acting as the commissioner who suspended the New England Patriots star.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The glint and thrum of Y2K aesthetics—as contrasted with the droning conservatism of the white-collar office—read as anticipatory rather than melancholic, looking toward a future liberated from systems of old.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
Mickelson contrasted that experience with his current mindset at LIV events.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Citron contrasted a chart of Palantir’s impressive, steady revenue growth with OpenAI’s skyrocketing results.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
Château d'Attre is a castle that was built in the late 1700s, and largely influenced by French architecture from Louis XV's era—buildings from this era were characterized by their modest exteriors that deeply contrasted with their lavish interior design.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contrasted
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That his children are fatherless because his ideas and his beliefs differed from somebody else, apparently.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The type of music that parents relied on differed.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Invite someone from marketing, IT or finance to your team meeting to gain their perspective and leverage their contrasting and complementary strengths.—
Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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These gains appeared across different growing conditions.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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That's because nudity can take on drastically different meanings.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Standardizing once and integrating everywhere ensures data models harmonize disparate protocols such as PLC tags, LIMS records and MES batches.—
Nagesh Nama,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Even so, the original score by Mary Komasa and Antoni Komasa Lazarkiewicz, supplemented by sadcore indie tracks by Trupa Trupa, is a presence throughout, acting like a sonic glue that holds the chronologically disparate sequences of the film together while adding a distinct modernity to the tone.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Contrasted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contrasted. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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