How to Use dichotomous in a Sentence

dichotomous

adjective

• At work, dichotomous thinkers might view their jobs and abilities in a rigid way.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• Mann poses the wizard and the prophet as dichotomous endpoints.
  — Mary Ellen Hannibal, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• The dichotomous reaction to Sam Read-Graves’ morally heavy game is a win-win.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• This doesn’t really represent a dichotomous shift from a black to white, A to B, or yes to no.
  — Jill Sanford, Outside Online, 13 June 2018
• For me and many like me, the gamut of our decision-making is not dichotomous – to have a baby or not have a baby.
  — Kwentoria A. Williams, Essence, 11 Apr. 2022
• The two story-strands come together midway in a scene that captures the book’s dichotomous mood.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
• None of the six is strictly dichotomous, Jordan-Young said, and the different markers don’t always align.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2022
• The dichotomous view of the sexes that held sway in the last century has given way to one that sees differences mainly in degree rather than kind.
  — Cordelia Fine, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
• In dichotomous thinking like this, a single exception can tip a person’s view to one side.
  — Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• The steampunk grandeur of the lobby at the Pearl’s Hotel Emma, dressed in the dichotomous trappings of old industrial majesty, hides luxury in plain sight.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2022
• That mistake is the cognitive error known as black-and-white thinking, also called dichotomous and all-or-none thinking.
  — Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• Transracial adoption is often understood in dichotomous terms – a fairy tale or nightmare, an act of grace or, in one of the most extreme takes, a form of genocide.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
• The concept exists on a spectrum, and the two aren't dichotomous but interconnected.
  — Scottie Andrew, Josiah Ryan and Caroline Kelly, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• That moment, against a Disney-like backdrop, captured the dichotomous mood of Sin City just days after a gunman killed at least 59 people and wounded hundreds more.
  — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
• Being proactive and reactive aren't dichotomous choices, by the way.
  — Eugene Litvak, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Their lives become a reflection of the dichotomous belief that love is extremely dangerous and the only thing that matters.
  — Remy Ramirez, Marie Claire, 9 Apr. 2021
• The world’s most stylish took a dichotomous approach to the sticky situation, choosing clothes of either such full and waft-y proportions as to barely touch the body, or dresses so tiny as to have barely anything to touch.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 9 July 2018
• Here’s the next set of questions, which are drawn from research on dichotomous thinking by psychologist Atsushi Oshio.
  — Shlomo Benartzi, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• Sinema included photos of herself, one in a Barbie-pink dress and the other a black-and-white image of her serious expression, to mimic the movies’ dichotomous styles.
  — USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• These pervasive conundrums all seemingly suggest that we at times are faced with a dichotomous situation and need to choose one facet or the other.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• While the conversation has become dichotomous and polarized, with each side blindly defending its ground, there’s a deeper debate to be had about the issue.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• As a dichotomous study of love, AudioLust & HigherLove certainly calls for a new level of confession.
  — Rachel Narozniak, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
• In that context, McElroy’s case has engendered a predictably dichotomous response.
  — Jack Stripling, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• The dichotomous energy between me and the other passengers seemed almost palpable: Most were here for a bachelorette party or a long weekend escape.
  — Holly Patton, Vox, 11 June 2019
• Priscilla Hayner, a scholar of commissions, takes issue with the dichotomous presentation of focusing on the past versus moving on.
  — Grant Tudor, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
• From differences in costuming to the dichotomous emphases in training and style of movement, classical ballet epitomizes the gender binary at its most rigid.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2022
• The two towns are also dichotomous economically: Both communities are struggling to understand an act of violence that tore through them, but one is rural, and one suburban, one lower-income and one wealthy.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
• In Weiss’s Marat/Sade, the two historical figures embody the most radical expressions of these dichotomous forms of rebellion: the political and the individual.
  — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
• Balancing dichotomous opinions on prairie dogs and public land is a taxing job for federal officials, one that requires dedication.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• But suggesting that hackers and feds are dichotomous and dissimilar doesn’t reflect reality.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024