How to Use in marked contrast to in a Sentence

in marked contrast to

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  • Kneeland’s experience stands in marked contrast to the state as a whole.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • That is, in marked contrast to many of his fellow hosts on Fox, Wallace evinces an interest in truth and reportage.
    Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Such comments stand in marked contrast to the sentiments of most business leaders.
    Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This lack of capacity stands in marked contrast to China.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • The uproar in the House was in marked contrast to the opening day of the Senate, where seven new members were sworn in and senators then quietly adjourned for three weeks.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Full of comic scenes, the novel was in marked contrast to the spare poetical prose of Ms. Pineda’s earlier novels.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Lapid's comments were in marked contrast to those of Israel's prime minister Naftali Bennett.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This year, for example, Washington, D.C., has suffered a sharp increase in killings, in marked contrast to the nationwide decline.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Yet Cora’s stance since his return stands in marked contrast to what author Evan Drellich, in a book being released Feb. 14, portrays as his brazenness before the scandal swept through the sport.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That approach stood in marked contrast to the challengingly complex music known as bebop, which was sweeping the jazz world when Mr. Jamal began his career as a teenager in the mid-1940s.
    Eric Grode, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • This is in marked contrast to mainstream industrial chocolate, in which the beans are a commodity product, bought in bulk for price, not quality.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • This is in marked contrast to other groups, such as one-third of white Republicans who have consistently rejected the vaccine.
    Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In subsequent years, Snoop has enjoyed mainstream acceptance in marked contrast to his ’90s persona.
    David Lindquist, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Earlier his month, Fortune reported on LinkedIn users writing about their layoff heartbreak—and sometimes seeing their posts go viral—in marked contrast to the shame and secrecy that often surrounded layoffs in the past.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This diversity stands in marked contrast to many neighborhood public schools that reflect the population of the surrounding neighborhoods.
    David Buice, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Nestled on a busy North London high street brimming with corner stores, betting shops, and cafés, Etles’s bright-blue exterior stands in marked contrast to much of its surroundings—a differentiation befitting of its distinctive offerings.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Treasury’s willingness to absolve the Bahamas of responsibility for facilitating tax avoidance stands in marked contrast to more recent efforts, in which stigmatizing tax havens as bad actors has become almost the norm.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 24 June 2021

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