in contrast to
Appearance
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[edit]Preposition
[edit]- As opposed to.
- 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change:
- In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
- 2005, Wienke G. W. Boerma, Carl-Andy Dubois, 2: Mapping primary care across Europe, Richard Saltman, Ana Rico, Wienke G. W. Boerma, Primary care in the driver's seat?: Organizational reform in European primary care, page 33,
- In contrast to home nursing, home help services are not a part of health care but are considered as social services, except in Ireland, the Netherlands and to some degree in Germany.
- 2002, Patrick R. Murray, chapter I, in Medical Microbiology[1], page 778:
- In contrast to most fleas, which do not invade the human integument, the chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans, may cause considerable damage by actively invading the skin. The female chigoe flea burrows into the skin, often under the toenails or between the toes, where she sucks blood and lays her eggs.