juxtapose

[ juhk-stuh-pohz, juhk-stuh-pohz ]

/ ˈdʒʌk stəˌpoʊz, ˌdʒʌk stəˈpoʊz /

to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Origin of juxtapose

First recorded in 1850–55; back formation from juxtaposition

This metaphor raises a lot of questions when juxtaposed with the rest of the lyrics of the song.

R. Kelly’s Craziest Lyrics From ‘Black Panties,’ Analyzed |Chancellor Agard |December 3, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And at Waddesdon Manor last year, items were placed in certain places, juxtaposed with objects that look entirely different.

The Writer and the Potter: Edmund De Waal on his New York Debut |Iain Millar |September 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And, while there are many startlingly violent scenes, they are juxtaposed with beauteous ones.

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It is against their wholeness that the incomplete impressions of the recent past or present are juxtaposed.

Resurrecting Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini’s ‘And the Mountains Echoed’ |Rafia Zakaria |May 28, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

He also noted that vintage detail, when juxtaposed with an otherwise modern world, “enhances the weirdness of their relationship.”

‘Bates Motel’: Freddie Highmore Talks Sex, Incest, and Young Norman Bates |Anna Klassen |March 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
When colours are juxtaposed, they become influenced as to their hue.

Principles of Decorative Design |Christopher Dresser
It is known that juxtaposed colors generally enrich one another and this phenomenon is known as simultaneous contrast.

Artificial Light |M. Luckiesh
The most free and ruddy and brave of his pages are juxtaposed with some of the most soft and timid.

Musical Portraits |Paul Rosenfeld
In other juxtaposed twins the plane of composition is, however, not necessarily the twin-plane.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 |Various
When they were together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles |Thomas Hardy

juxtapose

/ (ˌdʒʌkstəˈpəʊz) /

(tr) to place close together or side by side

juxtaposition, noun juxtapositional, adjective

C19: back formation from juxtaposition, from Latin juxta next to + position