All 11 Uses of
contrast
in
Outliers
- In fact, by the age of twenty, the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice. By contrast, the merely good students had totaled eight thousand hours, and the future music teachers had totaled just over four thousand hours.
Chpt 2 *by contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
- The poor parents, by contrast, are intimidated by authority.
Chpt 4
- Poor parents tend to follow, by contrast, a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth."
Chpt 4
- By contrast, the working-class and poor children were characterized by "an emerging sense of distance, distrust, and constraint."
Chpt 4
- Chris Langan, by contrast, had only the bleakness of Bozeman, and a home dominated by an angry, drunken stepfather.
Chpt 4
- Now contrast that experience with the experience of someone who, like Mort Janklow, was born in the 1930s.
Chpt 5contrast = compare to show differences
- The southerners, by contrast, were downright deferential in normal circumstances, stepping aside with more than nine feet to go.
Chpt 6by contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
- Here, by contrast, is the transcript from Avianca 052, as the plane is going in for its abortive first landing.
Chpt 7
- Asian children, by contrast, don't feel nearly that same bafflement.
Chpt 8
- If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn't sleep through the winter.
Chpt 8
- The reading scores of the rich kids, by contrast, go up by a whopping 52.49 points.
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences