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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Water chestnuts and snow peas provided a light counterpoint to the duck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The gnarly Texas scrub provides a vivid counterpoint to the fading sunlight.
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The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
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The plainness of the rooms in this series makes an interesting counterpoint to the fanciful objects and people that inhabit them.
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These warnings against an excess of counterpoint are really concerned with emotive beauty in music.
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This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.