contrast with

contrast (someone or something) with (someone or something)

1. To highlight the differences between two people or things. A noun or pronoun can be used between "contrast" and "with." Now contrast Joe's unenthusiastic reaction with Sally's unbridled glee over the news.
2. To be obviously or clearly different from someone or something else. I think the paint color of the trim contrasts with the walls nicely.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

contrast (someone or something) with (someone or something else)

 and contrast (someone or something) to (someone or something else)
to examine people or things in a way that will show their differences. Contrast Sally with Sam, for instance, to see real differences. Contrast the busy geometry of a Gothic cathedral to the simple lines of an old Saxon castle.
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contrast with someone or something

 
1. to be different from someone or something. Bill's cheery attitude really contrasts with the gloom of his twin brother, Bob. This stiped tie really contrasts with that polka-dot shirt.
2. [for a color or pattern, etc.] to show a marked difference with or complement another. The black one contrasts nicely with the white one.
See also: contrast
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • contrast (someone or something) with (someone or something)
  • contrast to (something)
  • contrast
  • contrast (someone or something) to (someone or something else)
  • not do (someone or oneself) any favors
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • interpret for
  • interpret for (someone)
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Measurements (experimental images not shown here) and MC-simulations feature positive NP contrast with maxima at [E.sub.0] [less than or equal to] 5 keV for both substrates and values approaching asymptotically zero for [E.sub.0] > 5 keV.
Contrast of Backscattered Electron SEM Images of Nanoparticles on Substrates with Complex Structure
Despite the potential implications of contrast with humans (e.g., treatment of disruptive behavior in one setting may worsen behavior in another setting, contrast may be more likely to occur at different times of day), the vast majority of research on contrast has been conducted with nonhumans.
Because of the paucity of research on contrast with humans, we chose to use criteria that would maximize the likelihood of detecting an effect, although it might be the case that doing so resulted in a Type I error.
A human-operant investigation of preceding- and following-schedule behavioral contrast
According to that, the changes in some cases will increase stimulus contrast with the black while in cyan in the same terms stimulus contrast will be reduced.
Evaluation of the influence of the background colour on the perception of the stimulus contrast
And, in contrast with the exterior lightness of the new tower, interior spaces in the link appear heavy, carved rather than constructed.
In contrast with the facile legibility of the older tower's brickwork, the metal cladding is apparently casually crumpled.
Extending eclecticism: Herzog & de Meuron bring a new sense of animation and dynamism to a historic Midwest cultural institution
In Wallin's aesthetic world our thought is directed to the perfected, heroized body, a symmetrical, well-constructed machine, and then to the very stark contrast with a more defective model: a body marked by limitations no one will acknowledge--certainly not in an age of elaborate work outs, obsessive dieting, and plastic surgery.
MAGNUS WALLIN
As in so many other things, Machiavelli was a transitional figure who faced up to the fact that the practitioners of good statecraft, unlike the practitioners of good politics, would in all likelihood go to hell (what a contrast with Cicero's Scipio!).
Political Thought in Europe: 1250-1450
For example, silhouettes can be painted on the wall behind the toilet and the toilet paper holder to make them contrast with the white bathroom walls.
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Her problems also provide an illuminating contrast with Reaga.
The Iron Lady
In the third experiment of the same study, free operant responding in college students was studied under mult schedules, examining positive contrast with half the subjects and negative contrast with the other half.
Verbal behavior and behavioral contrast in human subjects
And the static, heavily earthbound stretches of almost monolithic buff brick capped by beige concrete forms yet another complementary contrast with the more dynamic arrangement of the windows, especially the broad cills and gutters that slice out at the sky.
Cambridge composure
In contrast with Domenig's earlier and more fiercely expressive work it seems remarkably reserved, and all the better so.
Mining the past
Negative contrast with deprived subjects tended to recover on the second day of downshifts and reoccurred on subsequent shifts.
Effects of present and former deprivation on consummatory contrast